The VW Golf hits its highest UK ranking in 2.5 years. New car sales in the UK score their best February volume in 20 years, up 14% year-on-year to 84,886 vs. 91,460 in February 2004. The year-to-date cume is up 10.3% to 227,762. However this outstanding result is entirely due…
The Volvo XC40 is by far the best-selling vehicle in the Netherlands in February. Dutch consumers bought 30,414 new cars in February, a solid 8.9% year-on-year increase. The year-to-date volume is as a result up 6.9% to 64,810. The Top four brands all vastly outrun the market with double-digit year-on-year…
The Skoda Octavia holds 7.4% of the Slovak market in January. The Slovak new car market soars 18.8% year-on-year in January to 7,935 sales. Behemoth Skoda (+61.7%) vastly outpaces the market to reach 25.4% share vs. 19.8% over the Full Year 2023. The Top 6 brands are unchanged on December…
The Toyota Yaris Cross is the best-selling model in Bosnia & Herzegovina in January. According to data shared with us by our local partner CE Auto, new car sales in Bosnia & Herzegovina climb up 13.9% year-on-year in January to 768 units. The Toyota Yaris Cross secures its first ever…
The Dacia Duster continues its run as the best-seller in Moldova. CE Auto data shows a Moldovan new car market up 4.3% year-on-year to 507 sales. The Dacia Duster (-7.4%) is faithful to the pole position it has held for the past two consecutive years with a strong 9.9% share.…
The Dacia Duster is by far the best-selling vehicle in North Macedonia in January. According to data by our Central European partner CE Auto, the North Macedonian new car market is stable in January at +0.5% to 420 units. This month the Dacia Duster is the clear leader with 10.5%…
The Toyota Corolla is the best-selling vehicle in Lithuania in 2023. Discover over 50 years of Lithuanian Historical Data here. New car sales in Lithuania are up 6.7% year-on-year to 30,793 units. We have a new leader in the models ranking: the Toyota Corolla (+31.6%) surges up to 6.3% share…
Outstanding month for the Kia Sportage in all UK nations. Thanks to SMMT we can share with you the Top 10 best-sellers for each UK nation in January. Keep in mind this is a zoom in by nation, all sales figures are already included in the January 2023 UK update. This month…
The Kia Sportage is the best-selling vehicle in Cyprus in January. Based on data by our local partners SEMO Cyprus and INNOSOFT, the Cyprus new car market soars 19.8% year-on-year in January to 1,527 sales. The top 3 brands all lodge surreal gains: Kia (+87.6%) is #1 with 19.8% share…
The new generation Santa Fe pushes the nameplate up to its highest ranking in 4.5 years. The South Korean new car market edges down -1.3% year-on-year in January to 115,877. This is solely the fault of foreign manufacturers diving -19.4% to 13,083 whereas domestic brands are up 1.6% to 102,794.…
The previous generation Nissan Sunny is still on sale in Egypt. Discover close to 20 years of Egyptian Historical Data here. After a harsh -37.2% fall in 2022, the Egyptian new light vehicle market posts another mediocre year in 2023 at a damning -50.8% year-on-year to just 85,852 units. This…
BMW is up to 5th place in the Polish brands ranking this month. The Polish new car market is up a splendid 22.5% year-on-year in January to 42,109. Toyota (+23.2%) manages its second best ever share at 23.1%, only surpassed by the 24.3% reached last August. Skoda (+11.4%) and Kia…
BMW 1 Series UK sales are up 156.1% year-on-year in January. The UK new car market advances 8.2% year-on-year in January to 142,876 units. One of the interesting facts in the UK this month is the one millionth BEV registered. Diesel sales drop -10.1% to 9,348, petrol matches the market at…
Subaru Crosstrek sales climb up 140.8% in January. According to data by local consultancy DesRosiers Automotive, the Canadian new light vehicle market is up a very solid 14.9% year-on-year in January to 112,862 units. This is higher than pre-pandemic January 2020 (110,470). Notably the seasonally adjusted annualised rate of sales…
Toyota RAV4 sales are up 197.4% year-on-year in January. With new licence plates now available, January is traditionally the biggest month of the year in Ireland, typically accounting for roughly one quarter of the annual volume and setting the tone for the coming year. So it's good news this month…