The Dacia Sandero is up 7-fold year-on-year in March. The Slovenian new car market drops a steep -7% year-on-year in March to 7.304 units, leading to a Q1 volume tilting back into negative at -0.5% to 20.262. Volkswagen (-7.8%) and Skoda (+24.3%) both overtake Renault (-22.1%) to take the lead…
Audi is up to equal #3 with BMW in March in Luxembourg. This article has been updated with the Top 10 models. The Luxembourg new car market gains 4.5% year-on-year in March to 5.621 registrations, lifting the year-to-date volume up 4% to 14.867. Volkswagen remains the unattainable brands lead at…
The new hatch lifts Toyota Corolla sales up 103%. According to our partner JATO Dynamics, new car sales in Latvia soar 15.4% year-on-year in March to 1.618 units, lifting the Q1 volume up 6.6% to 4.461. The top best-sellers all post spectacular gains: the VW Golf (+42.2%), Toyota RAV4 (+49.2%),…
The Toyota RAV4 is now #1 in Estonia YTD. Thanks to our partnership with JATO Dynamics, we can share with you today March info for Estonia, a market down just -2% year-on-year to 2.233 units which brings the Q1 tally down -6.9% to 6.174. The Toyota RAV4 (+134.3%) more than…
The Kia Cerato breaks its ranking and share records this month. Picture exhaustnotes.com.au It's a 13th straight month of decline for new vehicle sales in Australia, down a painful -8.9% year-on-year to 75.500 units, the weakest April volume since 2011. Year-to-date, the market is now down -8.1% to 344.088 units,…
The Jetta unveiling at the Shanghai Auto Show 2019. After announcing its creation in February, Volkswagen presented its new entry-level China-exclusive brand Jetta for the first time to the public at the Shanghai Auto Show two weeks ago. The strategy used by the Volkswagen Group is similar to that of the…
The Toyota Camry returns to pole position in Kazakhstan. The Kazakh new vehicle market confirms it is on a roll in this start of 2019 with March registrations up 15.3% year-on-year to 4.916, meaning the year-to-date tally is now up 17% to 13.764. In the brands ranking, Lada (+21.4%), Toyota (+53.7%)…
The Skoda Fabia is the best-selling vehicle in Serbia in March. Thanks to our Central European data partner CE Auto, we can share with you today March data for Serbia, a market down -5.7% to 2.962 units, leading to a Q1 volume down -5.5% to 6.601. This month the Skoda Fabia (+90.6%)…
The VW Caddy shoots up to #2 in Bosnia in March. According to our Central European market data partner CE Auto, new light vehicle sales drop -7.8% year-on-year in March to 888 units, meaning the Q1 tally is now down -10.4% to 2.322. The Skoda Octavia (-12.3%) easily remains on top…
The Kia Stonic is the most popular vehicle in Cyprus in March. Thanks to our partnership with SEMO Cyprus and INNOSOFT, we can share with you today Cyprus data, and the freefall continues with March sales down an abysmal -53.5% year-on-year to 887 units, leading to a year-to-date volume down 34%…
Fiat Tipo in Tirana, Albania in August 2018. One of the 10 countries we dashed through in 10 days last August with a Dacia Logan was Albania, for which there has never been any official new car sales data published. I have to admit one of the motivations for conducting…
Skoda Fabia in Perast, Montenegro One of the 10 Eastern European countries we visited in 10 days in a Dacia Logan last year was Montenegro, population 678.000. There hasn't been any official data for this market since 2014, so I will draw on my observations on the touristic Adriatic coast in…
Volkswagen sales shoot up 35.5% year-on-year in Guadeloupe. New passenger car sales in Guadeloupe, a French overseas archipelago located in the Caribbean Sea home to 398,000 inhabitants step up 5.6% year-on-year in 2018 to 17.620. Peugeot (+3%) remains comfortably in the lead with 16.6% share while Renault (-1.8%) skids down to…
The Fiat Panda is the best-selling vehicle in Greece in March. New car sales in Greece skid down a harsh 13.9% year-on-year in March to just 9.518 units, tilting the year-to-date tally into negative territory at -1.8% to 26.289. As it was the case last May and after falling as…
The Hyundai Ioniq remains the best-selling vehicle in Israel. Thanks to our partnership with cartube.co.il, we can share with you today Israeli March brands data as well as complete models data for Q1 and every month so far in 2019. In March, the market is almost immobile at +0.3% to 29.127 units,…