VW Up * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 32 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Now we're talking. New car sales in Croatia finally take off: up a huge 66% year-on-year to 4,665 registrations, by far the best month of the year so far. The year-to-date…
Skoda Rapid Spaceback * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Zsolt * New car sales in Hungary are up a very healthy 20% year-on-year in April to 5,568 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 21,201 units. The Skoda Octavia keeps the lead…
Seat Ibiza * See the Top 215 best-selling models and Top 47 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Stuck in hell for a few very long years, the Spanish new car market is definitely smelling the roses now: up 28% year-on-year to 80,210 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to…
Volvo XC60 * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 35 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Sweden continue at full steam ahead: up another 14% year-on-year in April to 27,543 registrations which brings the year-to-date total to 95,346 units, up 19% on 2013. Volvo…
The Nissan Qashqai is up 66% year-on-year in Finland this month. * See the Top 30 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * Finnish new car sales are down 5% year-on-year in April to 9,215 registrations, however the year-to-date total is still in positive at +6% and…
The VW Golf is back to the year-to-date pole position in Norway * NOW UPDATED with the Top 100 models & Top 30 brands! Thanks Jan * Whereas the European market is slowly waking up from 6 years of lethargy, new car sales in Norway are down a surprisingly harsh…
The VW Golf is the best-selling model in Slovakia so far in 2014. * See the Top 240 All-models ranking and Top 37 brands by clicking on the title! * Slovak data comes to us with a bit of delay: today February figures are available with 5,767 new light vehicles finding a…
Chevrolet "Dabbabah" TFR * See the Top 147 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! Thanks Ldman * The Egyptian market confirms it is on the road to recovery with sales up 34% year-on-year in March to 22,943 registrations, bringing the First Quarter result to 62,817 units, up 27% on…
Skoda Yeti * See the Top 160 best-selling models by clicking on title! Thanks Paolo * Thanks to Paolo and Quattroruote, I can now share with you much more detail about the Italian models sales charts for March. Beyond the Top 50 we already covered, let’s salute the performances of…
Peugeot 3008 * See the Top 80 models and Top 36 brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Peteris * Another very encouraging month for new car sales in Latvia: up 25% year-on-year to 1,230 registrations, which brings the First Quarter result to 3,451 units, up 24% on 2013. Brand-wise,…
Hyundai Verna in Ürümqi (click on any picture to enlarge) This is Part 2 of my Ürümqi Photo Report, you can check out Part 1 about the surprising strength of budget Chinese brands here. Yesterday I reported on how the Shanghai Englon SC7, SC3 and SC6, Dongfeng Fengshen S30 and H30 Cross…
Urumqi street scene (Click on any image to enlarge) After Beijing and Chongqing, we now travel to Ürümqi in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region at the extreme West of China. As described in my previous article The cars of Chongqing - Central China, the Chinese hinterland is going to absorb most…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * 538 new light vehicles found a buyer in Bosnia in March, down 10% year-on-year and bringing the First Quarter total to 1,610 units according to data published by Central European market data specialists www.ceauto.co.hu. For the…
Dacia Duster * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Based on data communicated by Central European market data specialists www.ceauto.co.hu, 404 new cars were sold in the FYR of Macedonia in March, bringing the First Quarter total to 966 units. The Dacia Duster is the…
Yes the valiant Daewoo Matiz is still on sale in some countries... * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * According to Central European market data specialists www.ceauto.co.hu, 482 new cars found a buyer in Moldova in March, adding up to 1,135 units over the First Quarter 2014.…