The VW Gol is the best-seller in Brazil for the first time in 7.5 years. In July, the Brazilian new light vehicle market posts its first year-on-year gain in over a year (since June 2021) at +4.1% to 169,093 registrations. This means the year-to-date tally is now down -12.7% at…
Peugeot delivers the largest YoY gain among the Top 25 brands. Picture quatrorodas The Brazilian new light vehicle market stabilises in May at -0.3% to 174,814 sales. The year-to-date volume is now down -18% to 685,663 units. Fiat (-3.8%) remains the most popular carmaker with 22.3% share vs. 16.1% at…
The Fiat Pulse breaks into the Brazilian Top 5 for the first time in April. New vehicle sales in Brazil drop -16.8% year-on-year in April to 136,341 units, in actual fact the smallest decline of the year so far. The year-to-date tally now stands at 510,846 sales, off -22.8% or…
Chery is up to a record #9 in Brazil in February. New light vehicle sales in Brazil fall another -24% year-on-year in February to just 120,192 units after dropping -28.3% last month and -17.8% in February 2021. The year-to-date volume is down -26.2% to 236,789 sales, 84,000 less than over the…
The Fiat Pulse misses out on a first Top 10 finish by just 100 sales. It's a very harsh start of the year for new light vehicle sales in Brazil, down -28.3% to 116,601 units on a January 2021 volume already down -11.7% on the year prior. Fiat (-24.6%) easily…
The Fiat Pulse has landed in Brazil. There's no real improvement for new light vehicle sales in Brazil: down another -24.8% year-on-year in November to just 161,027 units. This leads to a year-to-date tally up 3.7% to 1,780,906. Fiat (-22.2%) retains the brands pole position but is weaker at 19.1%…
The Hyundai HB20 is the best-selling vehicle in Brazil for the first time. The Brazilian market is hit hard by the microchip and parts crisis in September with sales down a damning -28.4% year-on-year to just 142.354. The year-to-date tally is now up 13.2% to 1.469.862 and we have downgraded…
The Fiat Strada is the best-selling vehicle in Brazil in August. The Brazilian new vehicle market accelerates its fall with a -8.6% year-on-year drop in August to 158.514 units, leading to a year-to-date tally now up 20.7% to 1.327.535 units. Fiat (+24.5%) once again ignores the challenging context to fly…
The Chevrolet Onix is #1 in Brazil for the 6th consecutive year. Discover Brazilian Historical Data spanning over 65 years here. New light vehicle sales in Brazil plummet down -26.6% year-on-year in 2020 to 1.950.889 units. Only February was in positive, with all remaining 11 months in negative, albeit in…
The Chevrolet Onix Plus breaks its volume record in Brazil this month. New light vehicle sales manage to contain their loss to single digits for the first time since the pandemic hit in November at -7.2% to 214.265 units, the second month in a row above 200.000 sales. The year-to-date…
The Fiat Strada is up 44.7% year-on-year in Brazil. Pic by Fernando Pires / www.flpires.com.br The Brazilian new light vehicle market drops -14.9% year-on-year in October to 205.244 units, surpassing 200.000 monthly sales for the first time in 2020. This YoY drop, on paper worse than September (-10.9%) is actually due…
The VW T-Cross is the first ever SUV to top the Brazilian monthly charts. Total Covid-19 cases almost doubled in Brazil in the past month alone to 2.9 million and lives lost are approaching the 100.000 mark (98.493), keeping the country as the 2nd most affected in the world below…
The new generation lifts the Chevrolet Tracker to its very first Top 10 finish. Brazil is in the midst of a worsening COVID-19 crisis, and its new car market is down -76.8% year-on-year in April to 51.362 units, estimated to be the lowest monthly volume in 27 years and pulling…
Chery is #11 in February, the highest a Chinese brand has ever been in Brazil. The Brazilian new car market swings back into positive in February at +4.6% year-on-year to 192.639 registrations, however this is not enough to flip the YTD tally into positive also, at -1% to 376.756 units.…
The Chevrolet Onix Plus holds 4.7% of the Brazilian market, a new record. New light vehicle sales in Brazil are giving us another sign of plateauing in January with sales down for the third time in the past 6 months at -3.4% to 184.125 units. Chevrolet (-3.1%) almost matches the…