BMW 7 Series See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Ldman * Qatari consumers bought 5,733 new vehicles in November and once again Toyota has a stranglehold over the market. The big Land Cruiser is the best-selling vehicle in the country with a…
Toyota Yaris * Many thanks to Jared for making this update possible! * * NOW UPDATED with the Top 25 best-selling models - click on title ! * New Zealand car sales are down 4% year-on-year at 7,026 units even though Japanese models supply is now back to normal. Perhaps the Rugby World…
Chevrolet Sail * See 'Read more' for the Top 12 best-selling models - thanks to Matthias for the tip! * For the first time in 2011 I can share with you a Chilean models ranking. Car sales in Chile are up a massive 32% year-on-year over the first 7 months…
Mitsubishi L200 - picture by Al Hayat * Click on title for more info and pictures * * Now updated with pictures from Emirati newspapers Al Khaleej and Al Hayat * YouTube videos of the streets of Libya's capital, Tripoli, show that in all likeliness, the Chevrolet Optra, old gen Mitsubishi…
Hyundai i20 * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * Solid month for car sales in Austria, up 5% in August at 25,884 units and 9% year-to-date at 242,784. VW unsurprisingly places the Golf #1 and the Polo #2 as per…
VW Lavida * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post! * New car sales in China are starting to reflect purchase limits put in place in some cities (Beijing being one of them) to try and address traffic congestion. The…
Hyundai Santa Fe The Algerian car market continues on its amazing run this year, up 25% in April at 25,534 registrations and up 32% year-to-date at 100,315 units. The Renault Symbol improves on its already imposing market share to reach 11.7% in April thanks to 2,990 new sales. Hyundai places…
Lada 2104 in Azerbaijan * Click on title for more street scenes! * Azerbaijan's streets are filled with various generations of Lada 2104/2105's and this model should still be the best selling car in the country in 2010. Other very successful cars here are the Hyundai Sonata, Kia Cerato Forte,…
Videos of the streets of San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador, reveal that in all likeliness the Toyota Hilux is the best selling car in the country. Salvadoreans are very fond of pick-ups: the Mazda BT-50, Mitsubishi L200 and Nissan Frontier are also very popular. Other successful models…
The Guatemalan car market is a relatively difficult one to approach as it seems to be quite fragmented. However, 3 models should stand out in the rankings: the Toyota Yaris Sedan, Toyota Hilux and Chevrolet Aveo. Other strong sellers in Guatemala are the Mazda3, VW Polo, Mitsubishi Lancer, Hyundai Santa…
Syrian consumers have chosen: they are into Korean cars, and nothing else - well, nearly nothing else. Hyundai Elantras can be seen literally on every street corner, which means the model must have been securing at least 10% of the market since its launch in 2006. Another Korean model which…
Thanks to our friend Bart D at www.autoweek.nl, and www.autonews.com, we finally have up-to-date figures for the Canadian market, in reasonably good shape in 2010 at +1% in October (123,310 sales) and +7% Year-to-date with 1,330,658 registrations. The Ford F-Series is very impressive in #1 with a 24% growth over '09 at…
Two models fight it out for the first place in Chile: the Chevrolet Aveo is first in January 2010 with 1,094 sales and 5.6% of the market, just ahead of the Hyundai Accent at 1,030 sales and 5.2%. The Chevrolet Spark takes the 3rd place with 3.7%. The first 4WD…
The new Hyundai Sonata launched in South Korea in September 2009. * See the Top 50 best-selling local models by clicking on the title! Thanks to Pedro * In 2009, the launch of the new generation Sonata messed up the rankings: the Hyundai Avante takes the lead over the Full…
Toyota Yaris in Iceland, August 2008 * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * After hitting its record year in 2005, the Icelandic new car market stays at extremely high levels the two following years with 20,198 registrations clocked up in 2006 (-3%) and 19,316…