Dacia Duster * See the Top 35 All-brands and Top 192 All-models by clicking on the title * After gaining an encouraging 22% in 2014, the Romanian new car market starts 2015 with the brakes on: down 3% in January to 4,978 registrations. Home brand Dacia is up a trend-bucking 5%…
Opel Corsa * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 40 brands by clicking on the title * New car sales in Austria are down 2% year-on-year in January to 23,427 registrations, but still dominated head-and-shoulders by the Volkswagen Group: the Volkswagen brand holds 16.9% of the market and…
Hyundai Accent * See the Top 60 All-brands by clicking on the title * After spending the last 4 months of 2014 in negative territory and finishing the year at -10%, the Chilean new market gets knocked out in January: down 30% year-on-year to just 23,891 registrations. Hyundai spectacularly snaps…
Mercedes is the most popular brand in Singapore in January. * See the Top 35 All-brands by clicking on the title * Now that certificates of entitlement (COE - essentially the right to drive in Singapore) are back to more reasonable prices, the Singaporean market returns to its level of…
Toyota Corolla * See the Top 15 best-selling local models by clicking on the title * The Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association communicates each month the sales of locally produced models, which is a pretty accurate representation of the most popular new cars in the country as imports are still relatively limited. And its a…
Ford Fiesta * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title * Data provided by SEMO Cyprus and analysed by INNOSOFT bring to light a very dynamic start of the year for new car sales in Cyprus: up 15% year-on-year in January to 846 registrations. Leader in 2012 and 2013 but down to #3…
Dacia Logan * See the Top 5 best-selling brands and models by clicking on the title * 2015 starts the way 2014 ended in Algeria: with the Dacia Logan in the pole position thanks to 2.213 sales, and this month it is followed closely by the Toyota Hilux at 2,136…
The Mazda Biante ranks just outside the Indonesian Top 50 in 2014. See the Full Year 2014 Top 95 best-selling models and Top 10 brands here For the first time on BSCB we are able to go beyond the traditional Top 20 models to extend the ranking to the Top…
The Toyota Hilux is the best-seller in Paraguay in 2014. * See the Top 15 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title * It's a good year for new light vehicle sales in Paraguay: up 9% on 2013 to 30,691 deliveries, however the last two months of 2014…
The Isuzu KB should be the most popular vehicle in Zimbabwe in 2014. * Many thanks to Frank Stevens for the tip * For the first time ever on BSCB I can give you official sales data for Zimbabwe, where new vehicle sales are down a harsh 12% year-on-year in 2014.…
The Mercedes B-Class is still far above the BMW 2 Series Active Tourer for now. * See the Top 50 brands and Top 271 models by clicking on the title * New car sales start the year in positive in Germany at +3% in January to 211.337 registrations. Market leader Volkswagen is particularly…
Audi S3 Audi and Mercedes managed a coup for the first month of 2015, both overtaking BMW, the traditional luxury sales leader, worldwide. Thanks to sales up 10% year-on-year, Audi takes the lead of luxury brands with 137,700 sales worldwide, followed by the Mercedes brand at 125,865 deliveries (up 14%)…
Renault Master * See the Top 32 best-selling brands and Top 148 All-models by clicking on the title * Excellent start of the year for new car sales in Bulgaria, up 11% to an estimated 1,903 deliveries. First the usual caveat to Bulgarian data which are significantly skewed by re-exports to…
Seat Leon * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title * As an appetiser for overall German new car registrations, I give you German Private Sales data for January 2015. Germany characterises itself by an exceptionally low Private Sales (PS) ratio in general, but in January…
Mercedes GLA * See the Top 40 All-brands and Top 188 All-models by clicking on the title * New car sales in Hong Kong are up 7% year-on-year to 4,410 registrations, and if Toyota dominates the brand ranking as always with 21.3% share, Mercedes is particularly strong this month at 13.8%,…