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…
Chevrolet Sail * See the Top 280 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * As it is now the tradition on BSCB, after exploring this month’s models ranking in China, we now put the spotlight on year-to-date sales to extract longer-term trends. Over the first 7 months of 2012,…
Hyundai Elantra Langdong * See the Top 274 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * For the second time in the last 3 months, the Chevrolet Sail is the most popular passenger car in China, selling 23,643 units in July. It reinforces its second position in the 2012 year-to-date…
Buick Excelle - China is the only country in the world where a Buick is #1 * See the Top 277 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The biggest car market in the world has seen its models ranking completely reorganised in the last year. The big and very…
Ford Focus * See the Top 269 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The year 2012 is the year of firsts in China: after the VW Passat in January and the Chevrolet Sail in May, a third model holds the pole position for the very first time this month: the…
Chevrolet Sail * Click on the title to see the full article! * Now that most May sales figures have come through, I welcome you to BSCB's third World Roundup after March and April 2012. This month the focus is on General Motors, reporting its highest US monthly sales in…
The Kia K2 is the best-performing all-new model in China over the period * See the Top 273 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Like we did for the US a week ago and after exploring Chinese May 2012 sales in detail, I thought we could pause on…
Chevrolet Sail * See the Top 264 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Reshuffle atop the Chinese models ranking in May: for the first time ever, the Chevrolet Sail is the best-selling model in the country with 30,163 sales, 27,579 of which are the sedan version. This pole…
Renault Symbol. Picture by Alp Emre Goksel, all rights reserved. * See the Top 6 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks to Austin Rutherford * Algerian car sales data is getting rarer these days but I am able to share with you now the best-selling models in the…
Buick Excelle * See the Top 253 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Chinese car market is up a modest 4% year-on-year in March to 1.4 million registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 3.77 million, down 2% on 2011. Now that the Buick Excelle has found its…
Will the ChangAn Eado be the Chinese model to crack Western Europe? * See the full article by clicking on the title! * We have covered how Chinese models were struggling to rule their own market, but how do their fare outside of China? Based on all the data I…
Hyundai Accent * See the Top 10 best-selling passenger cars by clicking on the title! * Excellent start of the year for the new generation Hyundai Accent: it takes the lead of the Chilean passenger cars ranking in January with 1,016 sales and is followed by the China-imported Chevrolet Sail…
VW Passat * See the Top 250 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Thanks DC * The Chinese models ranking is as volatile as ever, with last month's leader - the Honda Accord - down to 42nd place in January and this month's #1 up 19 spots on December:…
Renault Symbol * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Car sales are up a massive 35% in Algeria in December at 18,934 units, bringing the final 2011 total to 289,385 registrations, up an excellent 32% on 2010. In December, Hyundai leads the market for…
Great Wall Haval H5 Special Edition * See the Top 250 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * This month I have split China into 2 articles as there is too much to talk about! You can see the China Full Year 2011 article here. In December we have…