Deceivingly good-looking: the Hawtai Shengdafei This is Part 2 of my Beijing Auto Show 2014 coverage, you can see Part 1- First impressions here. In order to report to you with as much precision as possible my experience at the Beijing Auto Show I will rank all 30-odd Chinese carmakers…
The Wuling Hongguang launched this month in India as the Chevrolet Enjoy. * This is Part 4 of 5 in my series on Chinese carmakers abroad. See also Part 1 (Africa), Part 2 (Latin America), Part 3 (Eastern Europe) and Part 5 (Mature markets) * In the first 3 parts of this series we observed that…
Brazilian Chery QQ * This is Part 2 of 5 in my series on Chinese carmakers abroad. See also Part 1 (Africa), Part 3 (Eastern Europe), Part 4 (Asia) and Part 5 (Mature markets) * If Chinese carmakers have started exporting to Africa in the early 00′s, they set foot in Latin America even earlier, with JAC starting…
Argentina is now the country in the world where the Toyota Etios has ranked the highest. * See the Top 196 All-models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! * In January, Argentinean car dealers announced that the combined effect of a tax hike on imported models and…
The Chery QQ is #2 in Uruguay, its best annual ranking in the world in 2013. * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Leandro * Thanks to Leandro and Autoblog Uruguay I can share with you today and for the very first time on…
Fiat Strada * NOW UPDATED with the Top 150 best-selling models and Top 20 brands! * New car sales in Brazil are back in great shape, up a very healthy 11% year-on-year in February to 245,941 registrations which brings the year-to-date total to 545,692 units, up 5% on 2013. Just…
Ford Ecosport * See the Top 204 All-models and Top 34 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Argentina are down 2% year-on-year in January to a still formidable 107,945 registrations, January traditionally being the strongest month of the year in Argentina. It had been creeping up…
The Chevrolet Onix wins its first full year contest with the Hyundai HB20 - by 13 units... * See the Top 200 best-selling models and Top 20 brands by clicking on the title! * * Check out Brazilian Historical Data spanning the last 60 years here! * 2013 will remain…
Renault Clio Mio. Picture by www.revistamovil.com * See the Top 250 All-models and Top 40 All-brands by clicking on the title! * * Check out 1962-2013 Argentinean Historical Data here! * Never before had Argentinean customers purchased that many cars in a single year: up 14% on 2012 to 955,023…
The Ford Fiesta had never ranked that high and sold that well in Brazil... * NOW UPDATED with the Top 180 models and Top 20 brands! Click on title to see * * The Full Year 2013 Top 200 models and Top 20 brands Report is here! * The Brazilian new car…
Honda Civic * See the Top 160 best-selling models and Top 20 brands by clicking on the title! * Down 23% in August but up 6% in September, the Brazilian new car market is back into negative in October at -4% to 313,490 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 2,951,825…
The Honda Jade lands directly at #79 this month. * See the Top 313 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * This month no less than 7 all-new nameplates make their appearance in the Chinese Passenger Car ranking, 6 of them Chinese. While the Honda Crider is currently 2013’s most…
Geely Emgrand EC7 (South African version shown) * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks Igor * As always the month of September is pretty weak in Ukraine at just 14,379 registrations, down 27% year-on-year and bringing the year-to-date total to 157,620 units, now up…
The Kia K3 is now the best-performing all-new model so far in 2013. * See the Top 326 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * As is now the tradition on BSCB, after going through the monthly sales charts and focusing on the all-new models entering the ranking, we…
Sales of Zotye Z300 are up 908% so far in 2013. * See the Top 321 All-models Ranking by clicking on the title! * Contact me at matt@bestsellingcarsblog.com for a more in-depth analysis of this market. As is now the tradition, after going through the July models ranking in detail…