Launched in March 2004, the Opel Astra new generation takes the lead of Croatian car sales in 2005 with 5,596 registrations and nearly 8% of the market, far above the Renault Clio at 5.7% and the Opel Corsa at 5.3%. It is to be noted that Astra figures also include…
* See the Top 100 best selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post * The Swiss car market is down 8% at 266,018 registrations, however the Top 2 best sellers see their sales grow thanks to their new generations both on sale this year.…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * In a market down 28% to 924,338 registrations, the Skoda Octavia becomes the best-selling model in Central and Eastern Europe with 58,526 sales, down 'only' 18% for a 6.3% market share. The Skoda Fabia is…
Lada Priora * See the Top annual and monthly Top 56 All-brands and Top 25 models by clicking on the title * Russian car sales are hit full frontal by the Global Financial Crisis in 2009, almost halving the record 2008 score at -49% to just 1.465.917 units. Russian carmakers get a…
Suzuki SX4 * See the Top 37 All-brands and Top 10 models by clicking on the title! * At 158.628 registrations in 2008, the Hungarian car market is starting to feel the effects of the economic crisis, down 10.4% on 2007. Suzuki enjoys its 12th consecutive year as the country's…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Very robust market in Lithuania over the period with 21,605 registrations in 2007 and 22,217 in 2008, up 3%. The Skoda Octavia is the best-selling model in the country both years with 1,162 sales in…
Mazda6 * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Estonian car market drops by 20% this year at 24,591 registrations. Bucking the trend thanks to the new generation now on sale, the Mazda6 takes the lead of the models ranking with 1,082 sales and…
Toyota Land Cruiser 120 * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * During the second half of the year, the Icelandic car market was hit full frontal by the economic crisis and all but stopped. Over the full year, car sales are down a dramatic…
Skoda Octavia See the Top 10/25/40 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Latvian car market is extremely strong in 2006 at 25,626 registrations and 2007 at 32,497 units but plunges in 2008. The Skoda Octavia is the best-selling model in the country all through the period, selling…
Ford Fusion March 2020 update: Now with Top 56 All-brands and Top 325 All-models. The Czech market is up a healthy 8.4% in 2008 at 143.661 registrations. Homegrown carmaker Skoda (-9.3%) continues to lose share at 31% vs. 37% a year prior. In contrast Ford (+28.6%), Renault (+22.9%), Volkswagen (+27.1%)…
VW Golf 6 * See the Top 346 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Florian * At 3,090,040 registrations this year, down 2%, German new car sales are at their lowest since the reunification... The VW Golf is slowing getting itself out of the weakest period of the…
Audi A4 * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The car market is down only 1.5% in 2008 in Austria at 293,697 registrations. The VW Golf is the best selling car again this year with 12,724 sales and 4.3% share. It lead the way…
+17% for the Slovak car market in 2008, reaching 70,040 registrations. Skoda places the Fabia and Octavia on top of the sales ranking again, and the Fabia continues its slow decline at -5% this year and 7,922 sales or 11.3% of the market. The Octavia grows faster than the market…
VW Golf * See the Top 80 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * After two years of chaos, the European models ranking is back to stability - albeit rocked by the GFC - with only 2 models sharing the #1 spot throughout the year. The VW Golf is…
* See the Top 100 best selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at the end of the post * The main event in 2008 in the Swiss car market is the constant progression of the Skoda Octavia which is starting to threaten the multi-decade-long leadership of the VW Golf...…