Renault Megane * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Europe are slowly sliding into recession, at -8% year-on-year in May to 1,164,071 registrations, with the UK the only market in the 'Big 5' to register year-on-year improvement. The 2012 year-to-date…
Dacia Duster. Picture by Ciprian Mihai, all rights reserved. * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Poland are up again in May at +4% year-on-year, bringing the year-to-date total to 142,375 units, up 10% on 2011. Like last month the models…
Great Wall Steed - Bulgarians have embraced Great Wall's vehicles * See the Top 50 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Kalo * 2012 will stay in the history of automobile as the year the Chinese started manufacturing cars in Europe. The Great Wall factory opened in…
Hyundai i30 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Austria are down 6% year-on-year in May to 32,398 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 153,890 units, down just 1% on 2011. The VW Golf is #1 for the 27th month…
Hyundai i30 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Slovakia are down 9% year-on-year in May to 5,948 registrations, brining the year-to-date total to 28,340 units, up 2% on 2011. As usual the Skoda Octavia and Fabia dominate sales, respectively…
Mercedes B-Class * See the Top 300 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Steam * In May the German new car market is down 5% year-on-year to 289,977 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,337,679 units, up just 0.3% on 2011. The VW Golf predictably holds…
VW Polo * NOW UPDATED with actuals for the Top 20 best-selling models! Click on title to see - many thanks to Luka * Croatian new car sales recuperate somewhat from a disastrous month of April (-37%) at -13% year-on-year in May at 3,377 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to…
Citroen C3 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Another depressing result for Greek car sales, down 48% year-on-year in May to 5,265 sales, which brings the year-to-date total to 26,853 units, down 41% on 2011. For the first time in 13 years, exactly…
Skoda Superb * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Czech new car market is up 3% year-on-year in May to 15,975 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 76,093 units, up 5% on 2011. For the first time since February and the 5th time…
Renault Megane * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Car sales in the Netherlands are down 4% in May to 47,628 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 255,177 units, down 8% on 2011. Already up 46 spots last month to #6, the Renault Megane…
Peugeot 508 * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Italian consumers are among the last in the world with the Swedish and Slovaks to still be extremely keen of Station Wagons (SW), which is why I keep separating this format each month in Italy. However like in April,…
Renault Megane * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Still no sign of recovery for the Spanish car market: sales are down 8% year-on-year in May to 72,514 registrations, the second worst month of May in the last 20 years after the 71,168 units…
Opel Astra. Picture by Ciprian Mihai, all rights reserved. * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Zsolti * Hungarian car sales continue to recover brilliantly after a couple of hellish years, up 20% year-on-year over both the first 5 months of 2012…
Ford Focus * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Irish car sales are wobbly again in May at -18% year-on-year to 7,698 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 59,946 units, down 9% on 2011. For the first time since January, the Ford Focus is…
BMW 1 Series * NOW UPDATED with the Top 325 best-selling models! Click on title to see! * After having explored the Top 316 models ranking in Europe for March 2012, still thanks to Lancia Lover from autoweek.nl I am able to share with you a European Top 150 models ranking…