The Toyota Aygo X breaks into the Italian Top 20 in May. The Italian new car market slows down its fall in May to -15.1% and 121,299 units, the smallest year-on-year decline of the year so far. The year-to-date tally is down down -24.3% or 178,000 sales below the same…
The Kia Stonic surges to third place overall in North Macedonia in April. Based on data shared with us by Eastern European data partner CE Auto, new car registrations in North Macedonia gain 18.3% year-on-year to 478 units, meaning the year-to-date tally is now down -4.6% to 1,606. The VW Polo…
The Ford Puma is up to a record 2nd place in Italy in April. Italian new car sales collapse in April at -33% year-on-year to 97,339 units, driving the year-to-date tally down -26.5% to 435,647. Private sales fall even faster at -40.1% to 52,304 and 53% share (-6.5 points) and…
The Mitsubishi Space Star is the best-selling vehicle in North Macedonia in March. According to data shared with us by our Eastern European partner CE Auto, the North Macedonian new car market falls -8.8% year-on-year in March to 484 registrations, meaning the year-to-date tally is now down -11.8% to 1,128…
The Citroen C3 is up to a record #2 in Italy in March. The Italian new car market worsens again in the absence of any incentives, with March sales down a dizzying -29.7% or 50,000 cars year-on-year to just 119,497 units. The year-to-date tally is off -24.4% over the first…
Dacia is the only year-on-year gainer among the Top 12 brands. Picture quattroruote.it Things are not improving in Italy, on the contrary: February sales are off by a damning -22.6% to 110,869 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -21.1% to 218,716 units. Private sales drop -25.9% to 69,900 and…
The Toyota Yaris Cross is cannibalising Yaris sales in Italy. Now updated with the Top 30 BEV models. New car sales in Italy tumble down -19.7% year-on-year in January to 107,814 units whereas January 2021 was already down -14.1% on the year prior. A very poor start of the year…
The Fiat 500 is up to a record 2nd place at home in 2021. Consult over 90 years of Italian Historical Data here. The Italian new car market is up a shy 5.5% year-on-year in 2021 to 1,457,952 units as the microchip shortage continued to impact stocks and sales with…
The Renault Twingo is the best-selling vehicle in Croatia in November. The Croatian new car market edges down -3.6% year-on-year in November to 2,560 registrations, keeping in mind November 2020 was already down -23.6% on the year prior. The year-to-date tally now stands at 42,805 units, up 25.9% on the…
The Toyota Yaris Cross breaks into the Italian Top 10 for the first time in November. New car sales in Italy slide down -24% year-on-year in November to 106,690 units, an improvement on the -35.7% of October but still a very significant loss. This leads to a year-to-date tally up 8.9%…
The Fiat Panda holds 11% of the Italian market in October. The microchip crisis and lack of significant and generalised incentives means the Italian new car market is accelerating its fall in October to -35.7% at 101.015 units, compared with -33.1% in September and -26.9% in August. The year-to-date volume…
The Renault Clio is the best-selling vehicle in Slovenia in September. The Slovenian new car market is down -7% year-on-year in September to 4.127 registrations, meaning the year-to-date tally is now in negative at -0.3% to 43.098 units. Faithful to its end-of-quarter backloading practice, Renault (+10.2%) defies the depleted environment…
The Dacia Spring is the best-selling BEV in Italy in September. The microchip and parts crisis and the expiration of government incentives have combined to produce a particularly ghastly month in Italy in September with sales plunging -32.5% to 106.345 units. The year-to-date volume is now up 20.9% to 1.176.520.…
The Toyota Yaris is up 89.2% year-on-year in Italy in July. In line with poor results in Spain, the Italian new car market freefalls -19.2% year-on-year in July to just 111.300 units. The year-to-date tally is now up 38.3% to 1.004.165. Compared to the pre-pandemic volumes of two years ago,…
The FSO Polonez Caro was #1 in Poland in the early nineties. * See links to the 29 Historical Data posts below * Now updated with 1974 and 1994-1995 data. Historical sales data covering the last four decades is now available on BestSellingCarsBlog for Poland. The FSM Syrena 105 was the…