Subaru Forester sales are up 124.7% year-on-year this month. Local consultancy DesRosiers Automotive has the Canadian new light vehicle market up 5.6% year-on-year to 165,000. This remains below the 180,000 units the market used to achieve pre-pandemic. The SAAR for the month is at a solid 1.81 million units vs.…
The CX-50 (+123.9%) helps Mazda up 51.4% in July. Local consultancy DesRosiers Automotive has the Canadian new light vehicle market up 11% year-on-year in July to an estimated 161,000 units, thanks partly to delayed sales from the June software outage. This is however still below the 170-185,000 units July volumes…
The Honda N-BOX is the best-selling vehicle in Japan in 2022. Discover over 50 years of Japanese Historical Data here. New vehicle sales in Japan drop -5.6% year-on-year in 2022 to 4,201,321 units vs. 4,448,340 in 2021. Brand leader Toyota (-12.4%) is the only Top 8 carmaker to fare worse…
Toyota Voxy sales are up 174.7% year-on-year in September. The Japanese new vehicle market manages its first year-on-year since June 2021 this month with a very robust +24.1% to 395,163 units. However keep in mind September 2021 was down -32.2% over the prior year so we're still evolving at below pre-Covid volumes.…
BYD is the best-selling brand in China for the first time. Covid lockdowns and associated factory and dealership closures have devastated the Chinese wholesales market in April. According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), wholesales are down -47.6% year-on-year this month to just 1.181 million units which is the…
Mazda sales are up 4.6% in a market down -17%. August is the month the microchip and parts shortage and associated idling of numerous local factories finally took their toll on the U.S. new light vehicle market. It is estimated by Morgan Stanley at 1.095 million sales, a vertiginous -17%…
Toyota sales are up 19.7% in a market down -5.7% in July. Estimates from Desrosiers Automotive have the Canadian new car market down -5.7% year-on-year in July to 155.657 units as inventory shortages linked to the microchip crisis dent the market recovery from Covid-19 restrictions. This leads to a year-to-date…
The new Sienna helps Toyota sales over Q1. New light vehicle sales in the U.S. rally back up in March on year-ago volumes severely impacted by Covid-19 lockdowns: sales are estimated to soar roughly 60% year-on-year to 1.6 million units, equivalent to the March 2019 volume. This means the U.S.…
Hyundai Kona sales are up 27.6% in Canada this month. Local consultancy DesRosiers estimates a Canadian new vehicle market down -9.9% year-on-year to 112.654 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -13.6% to 203.544. The Seasonally Adjusted Annualised Rate of sales (SAAR) stands at a strong 1.84 million units, a…
The new GV80 lifts U.S. Genesis sales up this month. New light vehicle sales in the U.S. are estimated to drop -10% year-on-year in February to roughly 1.19 million units on two fewer selling days and as severe weather impacted dealership traffic for the month. As the U.S. economy continues…
Mazda CX-9 sales are up 21.6% year-on-year in January. The Canadian new light vehicle market skids down -17.4% year-on-year in January to 90.890 units according to DesRosiers Automotive, as many parts of the country were under lockdown during the month. The three main automotive groups still reporting sales monthly all…
Kia Telluride sales are up 34.8% year-on-year. New light vehicle sales in the U.S. are estimated to fall -3.3% year-on-year in January to roughly 1.09 million units according to Morgan Stanley, with one less selling day compared to January 2020 which is equivalent to a stable market. In fact, the…
Toyota Corolla sales are up 77.3% in Mexico in April. As we predicted last month, the Mexican new car market crumbles under the weight of the coronavirus crisis in April at -64.5% year-on-year to 34.903 registrations, pulling the year-to-date volume down -23.1% to 331.580 units. As it is the case in…
Toyota RAV4 sales surge 44.6% year-on-year in July. The Canadian new light vehicle market endures a painful 17th consecutive month of year-on-year decline in July at -1.9% to an estimated 173.680 units. This brings the year-to-date tally down -4.4% to 1.163.393. According to Desrosiers Automotive whose totals are slightly lower…
The new generation Toyota Century landed in Japan in June 2018. Consult 50 years of Japan Historical Data here As is now the tradition on BSCB, we can now shine a more detailed light on the sales of all local models in Japan, ordered by variant. The Honda N-BOX (+14%)…