Dacia Lodgy * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Down 8% year-on-year to just 70,000 registrations in 27 days, this is shaping up to be the worst month of August in France in no less than 35 years... Peugeot looks like it will lead…
Chevrolet Sail * Click on title to see the Top 10 best-selling models & Top 40 best-selling brands! * Over the first 3 months of 2012, the Chilean new car market is down 6% year-on-year to 102,773 registrations, and today I can share with you a very rare Top 10…
Porsche Panamera. Picture by ninoscy, all rights reserved. * See the Top 193 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * After sharing with you yesterday the Top 50 All-brands ranking in Monaco over the first 6 months of 2012, I can now unveil an exclusive Top 193 All-models ranking…
Can the 301 help Peugeot become the best-selling brand in Algeria? * See the original articles in the Algerian press by clicking on the title! * Given my traditional source for Algerian sales has dried up and hasn’t been updated since last January, the only information I have about Algeria is…
Peugeot 504 Station Wagon in the background. Picture by Liki Fumei, all rights reserved. * Click on title for more street scenes and videos! * In 2011, 7,350 new cars were imported into Senegal, making it the biggest market in Western Africa. 585 of these were then re-exported in the…
Nearly one third of Citroen DS5 sold in France are hybrids. * See the Top 4 best-selling hybrids by clicking on the title! * Up until now, the hybrid technology had not really made its mark in the French market. With the first deliveries of the Toyota Yaris Hybrid, things look…
Dacia Lodgy * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Over the first 3 weeks of August, the French new car market is down 6% year-on-year to 50,400 registrations. Brand-wise, Peugeot leads with 8,908 sales and 17.7% ahead of Citroen at 6,996 units and 13.9%…
Fiat Panda & 500 in Vintimiglia, Italy August 2012 * See the entire photo report by clicking on the title! * The photo report saga continues: after Scotland and the French countryside, I thought I'd drive across the border to Italy in Vintimiglia to give you a quick snapshot of…
Dacia Duster in La Foux d'Allos, France August 2012. * See the entire photo report by clicking on the title! * When Renault relaunched Romanian brand Dacia in 2004 with the Logan, there were no plans to import the '5,000 euro car' in France. But the French wanted it, so…
The Geely CK is the first Chinese model to rank #1 in an export market. * Click on the title to see the full article! * With most July data now out, it's time for our much awaited monthly rendezvous with the World roundup, now in its 5th instalment. While…
Iran Khodro Runna * See the Top 15 most produced models by clicking on the title! * As usual we explore local production figures for the Iranian market as sales data is not available, however this should represent a relatively accurate picture of car sales in the country as high…
VW Transporter * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * In July Dutch companies bought 4,290 Light Commercial Vehicles, bringing the year-to-date total to 38,225 registrations. Big change this month: for the first time since we started tracking LCV sales in the Netherlands (in September…
Citroen C3: the bright spot in a dark Greek market. Picture by Ciprian Mihai, all rights reserved. * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Another very shy month for new car sales in Greece, down 42% in July both year-on-year to 5,757 registrations and…
Opel Astra * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Polish new car market is down 11% year-on-year in July to 23,736 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 192,589 units, still up 4% on 2011. No surprise in pole position: the Skoda Octavia resists…
Peugeot 208 * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Europe are down a worrying 8% year-on-year in July to 970,271 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 8,035,439 units, down 5% on 2011. There are only two models in the Top…