The Polish market is up a healthy 20% in October at 30,380 registrations, bringing the 2010 YTD total to -1% at 264,470. The Skoda Octavia (5.9%) and Fabia (3.8%) maintain their domination in Poland, ahead of the VW Golf which reaches a very satisfying third place. The Opel Astra and…
The Toyota Hilux comfortably leads the Panama car sales year-to-September 2010 with 1,925 registrations. However, looking at the Last 3 Months ranking (L3M), two new Korean SUVs are gearing up beautifully and could be a threat to the Toyota's throne in 2011. The Hyundai Tucson IX (aka ix35) is already…
Kia Sportage In October, Hyundai gets back to its dominating position with a 1-2-3: the Avante (Elantra) is still riding on the novelty effect wave with close to 20,000 registrations and 15% of the market, the Sonata loses 2 percentage points but stays #2 and the Porter is #3 at…
The Slovakian market is slowly recovering from a dismal year: October is at +10% vs. 2009 but the year-to-date sales are still at -33% vs. last year. Like in Czech Republic, the Skoda Octavia is ahead, followed by the Fabia, but their market shares are significantly lower: 8.6% and 7.5%…
Skoda Superb The Czech car market is handling ok in 2010, with +7% vs.09 over 10 months at 138,979 registrations, but -7% in October at 13,126. Skoda is extremely strong at home with 4 models in the first 4 spots! The Octavia leads at a massive 15.3% market share, ahead…
Poland is the biggest Eastern-European market after Russia and it grows by 12% in September with 27,906 registrations, but is -3% over 9 months 2010 at 234,046 sales. 1-2 for Skoda in Poland with the Octavia leader at 5.3% ahead of the the Fabia at 4.2%. Then 3 German compact…
The Dutch car market is growing fast in 2010: +23% vs. 09 in October (43,920 registrations) and +24% vs. 09 over 10 months (434,604 registrations). The VW Polo leads in the Netherlands: thanks to a phenomenal month of October at 2,751 sales and 6.3% market share, the Polo now tops…
Hyundai Avante Lots of important model launches this year in South Korea mean changing rankings and a very interesting market indeed. The best-sellers in the country are not always the models that everyone is familiar with in the rest of the world. The new Hyundai Avante (aka Elantra) confirms the…
Hyundai NF Sonata * See the Top 50 best-selling local models by clicking on the title! Thanks to Pedro * After one year of interruption by the Hyundai Santa Fe, the Hyundai Sonata reclaims the pole position in South Korea this year through its new generation NF with 93,045 sales,…
Hyundai Santa Fe * See the Top 40 best-selling local models by clicking on the title! * After 5 consecutive years in pole position, the transition between two generations of Hyundai Sonata (EF to NF) is fatal for the nameplate: in 2004 the Hyundai Santa Fe is the most popular…
Holden Commodore * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Record year for the Australian new car market, up 11% on 1996 to 722,642 registrations, for the first time above 700,000 and beating the 695,856 units delivered in 1985. Both in a transition year with…
The Hyundai Elantra is the new best-seller at home. New car sales in South Korea continue to gallop ahead in 1992 at +18.8% year-on-year to 1.217.411 units. Hyundai (+17.4%) and Kia (+22.2%) manage to remain competitive at stabilise their share at 46.7% and 34% respectively. Daewoo (+19.7%) once again outpaces…