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%,…
The Kia Picanto is the best-selling model in Israel in January. * See the Top 40 All-brands and Top 244 All-models by clicking on the title * The Israeli new car market starts 2015 nicely: up 24% year-on-year in January to 33,630 registrations. The brands ranking, usually relatively stable in Israel, is…
Chevrolet Matiz * See the Top 30 best-selling brands and Top 15 models by clicking on the title * After missing out on an all-time record year by a mere 4.310 units last year, the Mexican new car market is on track to smash all its records in 2015, with…
The Holden Commodore is up to #2 in New Zealand in January. * See the Top 60 All-brands and Top 25 models by clicking on the title * The Kiwi new car market starts the new year the way it ended the past one: at record levels. January sales are…
The Mazda3 starts the 2015 race in front. * UPDATED - Discover the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 47 All brands * New car sales in Australia are steady in January at -0.2% to 82,116 registrations, however this masks greatly varying behaviours by segments: passenger cars are down 4% while SUVs…
The Dacia Duster is on the Slovenian podium for the 4th time in 5 months. * See the Top 35 All-brands and Top 100 models by clicking on the title * Robust start of the year for new car sales in Slovenia: up 11% in January to 5,139 registrations. Volkswagen…
Luxgen U6 Turbo * See the Top 10 best-selling brands and Top 60 models by clicking on the title * New car sales in Taiwan are up a beautiful 8% year-on-year in January to 47,986 registrations, the best January score since 2011. Toyota is above 30% share thanks to 14,571…
2nd shock in 3 months: the Hyundai Solaris is the best-selling car in Russia in January. * See the Top 25 best-selling models and Top 53 All-brands by clicking on the title * Russian customers 'rushed' to purchase 2014 models in December (+2%) to avoid the inflation-induced price increase in…
General Motors sales are up 18%, Chevrolet up 20% and GMC up 29%. * UPDATED with the Top 272 All-models, Top 40 All-brands and Top 15 Groups * Severe snow storms during the last days of the month didn't prevent the U.S. new light vehicle market to grow by a fantastic 14% year-on-year…
The e-Golf represents 67% of total Golf sales and would be #1 on its own. * See the Top 30 All-brands and Top 100 models by clicking on the title * Difficult start of the year for new car sales in Norway, down 8% year-on-year in January to 10,523 registrations…
The Hyundai i20 ranks 10th in Northern Ireland. * See the Top 10 best-selling models in each nation by clicking on the title * Thanks to SMMT, now that we have explored the UK market as a whole for January, as is the tradition on BSCB we zoom in on the…
The 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer is the best-selling vehicle in Venezuela this month. * See the Top 8 best-selling brands and Top 22 models by clicking on the title * Hopes that the Venezuelan new car market had turned the corner when 5,274 new vehicles were registered in December are squashed…
Toyota Aqua X-URBAN * Discover the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 53 All-brands. Thanks Stephen * The first quarter of 2014 saw record sales in Japan due to an impending tax increase. Consequently, January 2015 sales are well below (-19%), with imports faring the best at -14.5% and KEI cars…