2013 Ford Fiesta * See the Top 50 best-selling Small cars by clicking on the title! * The original World Full Year 2012 Top 500 is here. We continue on our exploration by segment of the best-selling cars worldwide in 2012, now onto Small cars. The top of the ranking…
Suzuki Alto * See the Top 60 best-selling City cars by clicking on the title! * The original World Full Year 2012 Top 500 is here. Now that the worldwide best-sellers are available, I thought it would be a good idea to look at the detail by segment, so that…
The Toyota Corolla kept its crown in 2012, but just. Will the 2013 model (concept above) save it again this year? * NOW UPDATED with the Top 1000 best-selling models! Click on title to see * Finally it is here! Thanks to the hard work of Austin Rutherford the much anticipated…
Skoda Rapid * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Macedonia are down 8% year-on-year in February to 273 registrations, however thanks to the 150-strong order of National Police Skoda Yetis delivered in January, the market is still up…
Kia Sportage * See the estimated Top 20 best-selling models and 4 street videos by clicking on the title! * Thanks to my dear friend Vanessa's dad, Laszlo Liszkai, I can now share with you some street pictures of Azerbaijan, and this prompted me to dust off a country I had…
1958 Austin Healey 100-6 This post is brought to you by Groupon. As you can track on my Historical Data page, cars have become increasingly popular during the twentieth century, especially after World War II when the production and demand for a motorized means of transport have grown. The technologies…
The 250,000th Mini Countryman * See the full article by clicking on the title! * Last week the 250,000th Mini Countryman, a black JCW with red roof, rolled off the assembly line, only two and a half years after its introduction in market in September 2010. The Countryman is produced…
Nissan Qashqai. Picture courtesy of ernir, all rights reserved. * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * It is not getting any better for new car sales in Europe: down another 10% year-on-year in February to 832,998 registrations, which brings the year-to-date total…
The Opel Astra was #1 in Croatia from 2005 to 2010 and in 2012. We can now share with you Historical Data covering the past two decades in Croatia. If you have access to more info please make sure you get in touch by commenting on this article. The Croatian new…
The Toyota Yaris was #1 in Iceland from 2005 to '08 and in '12. Pic by dadiolli, all rights reserved. Iceland is without a doubt one of the car markets that suffered the most from the 2008-2009 financial crisis, with sales going from 19,316 in 2007 to 2,750 in 2009…
VW Beetle The direct links to 52 Historical Posts covering 1931-2023 are below. 22/10/2021 update: Now with All-brands data spanning 1931 to 1938. Historical Data for Germany running from 1931 onwards is now available. From 1979 onwards there is a Top 100 models ranking. And from 2005 to 2013 you can now see the…
BMW 3 Series (US model shown) * See the full article by clicking on the title! * One Bloomberg story about worldwide premium sales I thought was interesting enough to share here. After being passed by Audi in worldwide sales in January, BMW regained the top spot in luxury auto…
2014 Chevrolet Impala * See the full article by clicking on the title! * General Motors expert at Automotive News Mike Colias recently wrote an interesting article about sales of the Chevrolet Impala in 2013 which I thought I would mention here because this is an interesting 'profit over volume'…
Chevrolet Volt * See the Full article by clicking on the title! * Chevrolet has announced that the Volt has become the best-selling Electric Vehicle (EV) in the world in 2012 thanks to sales tripling to 30,090 units. For those of you for whom this comes as a surprise (I…
2013 Skoda Octavia * See the Top 3 best-selling models and Top 15 brands by clicking on the title! * As you may have noticed, Slovak new car sales data is now very patchy for the simple reason that my source ZAP has now closed off its monthly data reporting…