Toyota Yaris * See the Top 150 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Poland are down 9% year-on-year in August to 20,710 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 213,299 units, up 3% on 2011. Note that from 2012 onwards commercial vehicles are included which…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Igor * 19,639 new vehicles changed hands in Ukraine in August, bringing the year-to-date total to 131,018 units. After a historical month of July that saw a Chinese model, the Geely CK, climb…
The MCV version accounts for over half of the Dacia Logan's sales in Bulgaria * See the Top 224 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Kalo * Thanks to Kalo, for the first time on BSCB I can share with you an All-models ranking for Bulgaria, and…
Kia Cee'd * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * 254 new vehicles found a buyer in Iceland over the first half of September, down 10% on last month. The year-to-date total now stands at 6,543 units, already well ahead of the Full Year 2011…
Incredible: the Subaru XV is the best-selling car in Switzerland this month * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * 22,052 new vehicles found a buyer in Switzerland in August, bringing the year-to-date total to 224,360 registrations, up 11% on 2011. It's a historical month…
Hyundai i30 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Slovakia are up a very robust 15% year-on-year in August to 5,948 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total a little more firmly into positive at 46,516 units, up 3% on 2011. The…
* See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Austrian new car market is down 5% year-on-year in August to 24,570 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 239,796 units, down 1% on 2011. While last month the Volkswagen Group (VAG) placed 7 models in the…
VW Jetta * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Romanian new car market is falling further into recession each month, down a worrying 42% year-on-year in August to 5,044 registrations and bringing the year-to-date total to 44,392 units, down 9% on 2011. The…
Audi A4 * See the Top 303 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * The German new car market is down 5% year-on-year in August to 226,455 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 2,108,716 units, down just 0.6% on 2011, a remarkable performance in the current European gloom. In…
Skoda Citigo * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Czech Republic are down 6% year-on-year in August to 13,193 registrations, but still up 4% year-to-date at 118,584 units. If the Skoda Octavia stays at stratospheric heights this month with 1,600…
Nissan Qashqai * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Finnish new car sales don't seem to want to recover from the April 1 tax hike, down again by 25% year-on-year in August to 7,429 registrations and bringing the year-to-date total to 79,815 units, down…
Nissan Pathfinder * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * For once, Iceland is the first cab off the rank this month with August sales figures hot from the press, which means someone at us.is took the trouble of coming to work during the weekend to…
Opel Astra * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Polish new car market is down 11% year-on-year in July to 23,736 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 192,589 units, still up 4% on 2011. No surprise in pole position: the Skoda Octavia resists…
Toyota Yaris * See the Top 40 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Over the first half of August, 282 new cars found a buyer in Iceland, which is 22% less than last month. So far in 2012 there were 6,043 new registrations. The Toyota Yaris confirms it…
Land Rover Defender at Loch Katrine, Scotland August 2012 * See my entire Scotland photo album by clicking on the title! * With my Scottish stay soon coming to an end I thought I would share a few more observations with you. In total I have driven about 500 miles…