Renault Twingo III * See the Top 20 best-selling brands and Top 100 models by clicking on the title * On paper the French market is trending up: +4% in February to 147,130 registrations and +5% year-to-date at 280,300 deliveries. However the reality of the market is much more depressing:…
Mercedes is up to #3 and 9.6% share in Portugal this month. * See the Top 32 All-brands and Top 206 All-models by clicking on the title * New car sales in Portugal are up a spectacular 28% year-on-year in January to 11.852 registrations. A new pattern is emerging in…
Opel Corsa * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 40 brands by clicking on the title * New car sales in Austria are down 2% year-on-year in January to 23,427 registrations, but still dominated head-and-shoulders by the Volkswagen Group: the Volkswagen brand holds 16.9% of the market and…
The Mercedes B-Class is still far above the BMW 2 Series Active Tourer for now. * See the Top 50 brands and Top 271 models by clicking on the title * New car sales start the year in positive in Germany at +3% in January to 211.337 registrations. Market leader Volkswagen is particularly…
Seat Leon * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title * As an appetiser for overall German new car registrations, I give you German Private Sales data for January 2015. Germany characterises itself by an exceptionally low Private Sales (PS) ratio in general, but in January…
Fiat 500X * UPDATED - See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 45 All-brands * A very encouraging start of the year in Italy with new car sales up 11% on January 2014 to 131,385 registrations. A large part of this growth is however due to sales to rental companies up…
The VW Up is the best-selling nameplate in the Netherlands in January. * See the Top 40 All-brands and Top 268 All-models by clicking on the title * After 7 consecutive months of year-on-year decline, the Dutch new car market is up an encouraging 8% in January to 47,946 registrations. It's…
The Seat Leon is the best-selling nameplate in Spain this month, just above the VW Golf. * See the Top 45 All-brands and Top 279 All-models by clicking on the title * The Spanish new car market starts the year all guns blazing: up a flamboyant 28% year-on-year in January to…
The new model lifts the VW Passat back onto the Swedish podium. * See the Top 221 All-models and Top 32 All-brands by clicking on the title * Excellent start of the year for new car sales in Sweden, up 9% in January to 20,408 registrations and marking 13 consecutive months…
The Opel Mokka reaches a best-ever #14 European ranking in December... * See the Top 345 All-models and Top 58 All-brands by clicking on the title * After exploring the Top 10 brands and models for December, it is now time to look at complete rankings. Brand-wise, Nissan (+30%), Seat…
Mercedes GLA * See the Top 150 best-selling models and Top 50 All-brands here * After exploring the Top 50 models and All-brands for Italy over the Full Year 2014, we can now extend the scope to the Top 150 models, where we can list down the most popular all-new…
The third generation Mini hits a best-ever #26 in France this month. * UPDATED - see the Top 350 All-models and Top 50 All-brands by clicking on the title * December is here to remind the French market it is well and truly stuck in hell: down a horrendous 7% to…
Toyota sold 10 million vehicle worldwide for the first time this year. Toyota keeps worldwide crown Toyota Motor Corp. remained the the world’s biggest automaker in 2014 with sales up 3% to break the 10 million vehicles mark for the first time in the carmaker's history at 10.23 million units,…
The Renault Clio is the best-seller in Portugal for the 2nd straight year. * See the Top 40 All-brands and Top 260 All-models by clicking on the title * New car sales in Portugal enjoy a second consecutive year of growth in 2014, up a reassuring 35% year-on-year to 142,826…
The Hurácan lifts Lamborghini sales up 29% this year in Europe. * See the Top 62 All-brands and Top 357 models by clicking on the title * Time for the last year-to-date update for the 2014 European market, on track to lodge its first year-on-year gains in 7 years at 11.945.609…