VW Lavida * See the Top 319 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * After exploring the June sales charts in detail and looking at the all-new entrants in the ranking, I give you the 6 months summary for China. If the US market (our first 6 months update)…
The Ford Focus is the best-selling passenger car in China in June. Or is it really? * See the Top 306 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Passenger car sales are up 12% year-on-year in June to 1.29 million units, adding up to 8.18 million units halfway through…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 40 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Things are starting to go alarmingly wrong for new car sales in Romania, with June down 46% year-on-year to just 3,967 registrations, which brings the year-to-date total to 24,549 units, down 26%…
Opel Corsa * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 30 All-brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Luka * The Croatian new car market looks like it is on the mend: after dropping by a horrendous 46% over the first quarter of the year, but by just 1% in…
Mercedes E-Class * See the Top 300 All-models and Top 50 All-brands rankings by clicking on the title! * Should we take it as an encouraging sign for the short-term future of European new car sales? In June, the German market, by far the largest on the continent, is down…
BMW 3 Series Touring * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * As is the tradition on BSCB, before we explore the overall Italian new car market we first have a look at the station wagons (SW) segment as it displays some very interesting trends.…
2013 Volvo V70 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Sweden are down 11% year-on-year in June to 22,869 registrations, adding up to 128,900 units so far in 2013, down 10% on 2012. It's a relatively stable models ranking this…
VW Polo * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 30 All-brands by clicking on the title! * June sales data is starting to come through and Ireland is the first cab off the rank. This year the Irish license plate system switched to bi-annual (instead of annual), meaning…
VW Golf * See the Top 250 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * Now that we have explored in detail the Top 250 best-sellers worldwide for April, let's have a closer look at the year-to-date ranking to see what has changed compared to last…
The VW Jetta only represents 1.7% of Golf sales in Germany. * See the Top 364 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Florian * You can see the original Germany Full Year 2012 post here One of the most frustrating things about German new car sales published monthly…
The Hawtai Lusheng E70 is one of 50 all-new models in the Chinese ranking (#282). * See the Top 315 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Now that we have explored May sales in detail and focused on the 5 all-new models entering the Chinese ranking this month,…
Ford Ecosport * NOW UPDATED with the Top 304 All-models ranking! Click on title to see * New Passenger Car sales in China are up 9% year-on-year to 1,419,700 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 7,261,600 units, up an impressive 15% on 2012. As it gets bigger the Chinese market seems…
BMW 3 Series * See the Top 300 All-models and Top 48 All-brands rankings by clicking on the title! * Tough month for new car sales in Germany, down 10% year-on-year in May to 261,316 registrations, which brings the year-to-date total to 1,219,717 units, down 9% on 2012. Below the…
Peugeot 3008. Picture by josemiguelmartinez, all rights reserved. * See the Top 40 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Janis * New car sales in Latvia are down 7% year-on-year both in May at 1,144 registrations and year-to-date at 4,922 sales. Down to #5 last month,…
2013 Volvo XC60 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * For the second consecutive month, the Swedish new car market is reassuringly in positive year-on-year territory in May albeit at an extremely shy +0.09% to 25,782 registrations. Year-to-date, sales are sill down by 9%…