The Toyota Starlet Cross is a rebadged Suzuki Fronx The South African new light vehicle market edges up 1.5% year-on-year in July to 44,229 sales. This is only the second gain in the past 12 months alongside last April (+2.2%). Year-to-date volumes remain in negative at -6.3% to 289,982. Worryingly,…
The Jaecoo J7 enters the South African Top 50 in April. 38,172 new vehicles found a South African home in April, marking a return to positive territory for the first time since July 2023 at +2.2% year-on-year. The year-to-date tally is now down -4% to 168,970. Exports freefall -23.9% to…
Lixiang climbs the Russian brands charts. New car sales in Russia gain 77.3% year-on-year in January to 80,212 units, yet this is 12.5% below January 2022. Lada (+26.4%) vastly trails its home market and sees its share thaw to 27.8%. The next 8 brands (!) are Chinese. Haval (+133.7%) is…
Omoda breaks into the Top 10 brands for its first full year in market. Discover over 50 years of Russian Historical Data here. According to data by PPK JSC, the Russian new passenger car market is up 69% year-on-year in 2023 to 1,058,708 sales but remains 36% below the 1,666,780 units…
Peugeot sales triple year-on-year in Mexico. The Mexican new light vehicle market is up a very robust 17.1% year-on-year in May to 106,798 sales leading to a year-to-date tally up 21.4% to 519,534. Brand leader Nissan (+42.2%) vastly outpaces the market to 18.8% share vs. 18.1% year-to-date where it is…