The Suzuki Alto remains by far the favourite new car in Sri Lanka. New car sales in Sri Lanka sink -27% year-on-year in 2019 to just 9.545 registrations, the weakest annual tally since 2012 (9.500). This also means the Sri Lankan market has imploded -72.6% since its record high of…
The Chinese market hits a record 29.1 million units in 2017. * See the 2017 Total Vehicles Sales volume for 145 markets worldwide by clicking on the title * Thanks to OICA, the global association of automotive manufacturers, we can share with you today annual sales data for 145 markets…
The Maruti Alto is the best-selling car in Sri Lanka in 2015 * See more detail about the Sri Lankan market by clicking on the title * After a three-year absence, Sri Lanka is back on BSCB as 2015 marks a milestone year for the local market. Duties have been significantly…
The Wuling Hongguang launched this month in India as the Chevrolet Enjoy. * This is Part 4 of 5 in my series on Chinese carmakers abroad. See also Part 1 (Africa), Part 2 (Latin America), Part 3 (Eastern Europe) and Part 5 (Mature markets) * In the first 3 parts of this series we observed that…
The Maruti Alto should be the best-selling car in Sri Lanka * See the Top 4 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Andrea * Latest overall sales figures for Sri Lanka dated back to 2011, but that was up to today because thanks to Andrea I…
Mongolia is one of the world's Top 10 Emerging engines of growth. Picture by bag_lady, all rights reserved. * See the entire article by clicking on the title! * Over the past week we have explored some of the world's Top 10 Emerging engines of growth as nominated by Business Monitor International.…
The Toyota Camry ranks #6 in Kazakhstan in August * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 10 brands by clicking on the title! * Nearly 18 months after the last and only Kazakhstan update on BSCB I am now able to give you much more recent data for this…
Tata Nano After Iraq and Myanmar, we continue exploring the 'Top 10 emerging engines of growth’ as nominated by Business Monitor International and now land in Sri Lanka. My previous Sri Lankan article was based on the observation of the streets of the capital city Colombo through recent YouTube videos and focused on the…
* Click on title for street scenes! * The observation of the streets of Colombo through YouTube videos shows a Sri Lankan market inspired by its neighbour India (Maruti Alto definitely in the Top 3), but with strong specificities: the Nissan Sunny seems to have been by far the best…