The Toyota RAV4 is the most popular vehicle in Estonia in January. The Estonian new car market slips down -1.4% year-on-year in January to 2.294 registrations. Toyota (+100%) blissfully ignores this and exactly doubles its sales year-on-year to reach 20% share vs. 16% over the FY2019. Skoda (+1.6%) is stable…
167 Porsche Taycan found a new German home in January. 13/02 update: Now with Top 50 private sales models. New car sales in Germany skid down -7.3% year-on-year in January to 246.300 units, with business fleet sales (-5.1%) resisting better than the market at 168.469 and a whopping 68.4% share…
The VW Touareg breaks into the Romanian Top 10. Picture eblogauto.ro The Romanian new car market skids down -10.5% year-on-year in January to 12.489 units. Homegrown leader Dacia (-32.2%) pays the price of an unusually high score a year ago in January 2019 and falls to 28.6% share vs. 31.1%…
The Kia Optima breaks into the Swedish Top 5 for the first time. As expected after an artificial 107.8% surge in December in anticipation of new EU CO2 emissions rules and a new local tax system penalising polluting vehicles, the Swedish new car market is completely depleted in January at…
The Fiat Egea holds 11.6% of the Turkish market in 2019 vs. 13.6% for the entire Renault lineup. 3/02 update: Now with Top 25 models. After losing -35.1% in 2018, Turkish new light vehicle sales continue to sink in 2019 at -22.9% to 478.960 units, the lowest annual volume and…
Volkswagen (-0.9%) remains above 3m sales thanks to its new SUV lineup. Discover 30 years worth of Chinese Historical Data here. It's a second consecutive year of decline for the Chinese wholesales market - factory shipments to dealerships, and only the second drop in the past 30 years. The coughing…
The Changan CS75 breaks its volume record for the 2nd month in a row. The last month of the year is traditionally busier in China as manufacturers rush to register cars to meet annual emissions targets. This year is no exception, and even though they marks a 18th consecutive month…
The VW T-Roc scores its first Top 10 finish at home at #6. Discover 75 years worth of German Historical data here. The German new car market is back on the up for the 5th time in the past 6 years with sales up 5% year-on-year to 3.607.258 units, ending the decade…
The Toyota C-HR is the best-selling vehicle in Lithuania in November. According to our partner JATO Dynamics, the Lithuanian new car market continues to surge at +52.7% in November to 4.339 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 44% to 43.193. Note ACEA has Lithuania drastically down year-on-year and year-to-date…
The Volvo S/V60 scores its first ever annual win at home. Consult 70 years of Swedish Historical Data here As predicted, 2019 ended on an artificial high in Sweden with December sales up 107.8% year-on-year to 47.797 which is the largest December volume in Swedish history. The one and only reason…
Jetour retail sales soar 76.2% year-on-year in China in November. After studying Chinese wholesales (factory shipments to dealerships) for November, it's time to get into retail sales (registrations to end customers), our second complete monthly coverage of the Chinese market to "keep'em honest". Indeed wholesales can be artificially inflated by…
The VW Tayron hits a 6th consecutive all-time record volume in November. New China wholesales endure an excruciating 17th straight month of year-on-year decline but for the 2nd month in a row the dip is the smallest since the market started falling in July 2018 at just -3.6% to 2.457.000 units. This means…
Sharp fleet deals on the outgoing generation ahead of the December launch of the new model (pictured) propel the Ford Kuga to #3 in Germany. New car sales in Germany continue to recover from particularly paltry year-ago post-WLTP sales with November registrations up 9.7% year-on-year to 299.127 units, leading to…
The Peugeot 208 is the best-selling vehicle in Denmark in November. New car sales in Denmark continue to evolve at record levels with both the November volume up 1% to 18.114 and the year-to-date tally up 2.7% to 210.100 new all-time high marks eclipsing the previous bests of 2017. Volkswagen (-14%)…
The Skoda Kamiq scores its first Top 10 finish at home. The Czech new car market gains a solid 4.6% year-on-year in November to 20.163 units, yet it's not enough to catchup on a stronger 2018 year-to-date tally with 2019 down -6.3% to 231.208 so far. Homegrown brand leader Skoda…