The Opel Astra is the best-selling vehicle in Finland over the period... * See the Top 40 All-brands and Top 50 models by clicking on the title * New car sales in Finland continue to gallop ahead at +8.8% to 136.224 units, the highest score in exactly ten years, since…
Fiat Seicento * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * 1999 is a record year for the Polish car market: up 24% to 640,183 registrations, but 2000 brought the market back down 25% to 478,739 units. Fiat and Daewoo are clearly dominant. Manufactured locally, the Fiat…
VW Golf * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * In 2000 the VW Golf manages to keep the title of Europe's best-selling car for the 17th year in the last 18 without too much difficulty. It delivers 690,400 sales for a 4.7% market share,…
Suzuki holds 21.1% of the Hungarian market in 2000. * See the Top 35 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title * New car sales in Hungary edge up 2.3% year-on-year in 2000 to 132.876, their highest level since we started following Hungary annually in 1993. Suzuki remains the most…
The Seat Ibiza tops the Spanish charts for the 5th time. After two consecutive record annual volumes, the Spanish market catches its breath in 2000, edging down just -1.9% to 1.359.866 which is the 2nd largest annual score in Spanish history. Renault (-11.9%) is faithful to its traditional brands pole…
Hyundai Accent * See the Top 244 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks to Bill and Kostas * Car sales in Greece are up 11% in 2000 to a huge 290,030 registrations, still to date the biggest year ever for car sales in the country. #1 in 1998,…
The Fiat Punto is #1 in Ireland for the third straight year. The Irish new car market stuns in 2000 with a stratospheric 32.5% year-on-year gain lifting the annual volume way above the 200.000 mark for the first time in history at 230.804. Toyota (+33.8%) is back above Ford (+29.6%)…
VW Golf * See the Top 120 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * Thanks to a tip from Florian, we now have access to the 120 best-sellers in the entire world, data sourced on Interautonews and AutoWorld. We were expecting the Toyota Corolla to…
Toyota Corolla * See the Top 20 best-selling models by clicking on title! Thanks to Vic and Miguel * Two Toyotas fight it out for the title of best-selling car in South Africa over the period: the Toyota Corolla wins over 4 months in 1997 and 8 months in 1998 but…
VW Golf * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Florian for the data * In 2000 the German car market is down 11% at 3,378,886 registrations. The VW Golf celebrates 20 consecutive years in pole position but is down 4% to 300,579 sales and…
VW Golf * See the Top 10/15/20 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The VW Golf is very popular in Norway over the period, finishing #1 each year, at 8,356 sales in 1998, 5,900 in 1999 and 5,819 in 2000. The #2 spot changes hands each year, from…
Opel Astra 2nd generation * See each year's Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * Once again the Dutch car market is strikingly stable with the two same models in the lead over the 9 year period! The transition from the Opel Kadett…
VW Golf * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Rene * At this stage I don't have access to yearly rankings for Norway up until 1993, only a Top 25 models for the whole decade from 1990 to 2000. If you have more…
Renault Clio * See the Top 20 best-selling modelsby clicking on the title! Many thanks to José * 272,841 new cars found a buyer in Portugal in 1999. For the first time since the launch of the nameplate in 1990, the Renault Clio manages to climb on top of the Portuguese…
Fiat Punto * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Marc * Italian cars sales are down slightly this year at -2% and 2,331,898 registrations. The Fiat Punto is facelifted and stays the best-selling model in Italy for the 6th year in a…