Honda N-One * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Another solid month for Kei cars sales: while regular vehicles are down 3% year-on-year in November, Kei cars are up 5% to 149,968 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,855,373 units, up a mammoth 33% on 2011. This comes at…
VW Golf * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * The Republic of Macedonia is now a monthly fixture on BSCB thanks to Rutger, and November brings the Macedonian new car market deeper into recession, with sales down 32% to 301 units and…
Suzuki Mehran. Picture by Yawar Masood, all rights reserved. * See the Top 10 best-selling local models by clicking on the title! * In Pakistan we have access to monthly sales of locally produced models, courtesy of the Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association. This is a pretty accurate representation of the most popular…
Toyota Hiace Hong Kong Police. Picture by swat_hk, all rights reserved. * See the Top 150 All-models ranking and the Top 5 brands by clicking on the title! * 4,167 new vehicles were registered in Hong Kong in November, bringing the year-to-date total to 39,079 units. Toyota continues to dominate the…
Nissan Sentra * See the Top 13 best-selling models and Top 30 brands by clicking on the title! * In November, new car sales in Mexico enjoy their 33rd consecutive month of year-on-year growth (since February 2010!) at +10% to 91,826 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 876,898 units, up 11% on…
Subaru Forester * See the Top 30 best-selling models and Top 13 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title * The Japanese new car market continues to perform better than expected after government incentives expired in September. Some analysts predicted a 20% year-on-year drop, but sales of regular cars (ex-Kei) are down…
Toyota Prius Alpha. Picture by autoc-one.jp, all rights reserved. * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * As usual, after exploring the Passenger car Top 30 and the Kei car Top 20 in Japan, we have a more detailed look at overall October sales split…
Maruti Alto 800 * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * A relatively disappointing month for car sales in India, up just 2% year-on-year to 212,882 registrations and not benefitting from the Diwali celebrations this year. Year-to-date the market is still up a solid 10%…
Hyundai ix35 * See the Top 5 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! Many thanks to José * Thanks to José I can now share with you actual data for 2011 in Angola for the very first time on BSCB as part of The Africa Project. In 2011 the Angolan new…
The BYD F3 could reclaim the title of Chinese best-selling passenger car in the world next month. * See the Top 180 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * As is now the tradition on BSCB, after exploring the Top 150 most popular cars around the…
Toyota Avanza * Now updated with 2012 year-to-date actuals! Many thanks to Eddy for the tip * * See the Top 20 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * The Indonesian new car market continues to progress at an incredible pace and breaks its monthly volume record…
Suzuki could start assembling cars in Myanmar in 2015 One week ago, I started a series called 'the Top 10 emerging engines of growth' as nominated by Business Monitor International and I started with Iraq. Myanmar is another one of these high potential markets. If you are a regular reader of…
The Suzuki SX4 has been #1 in Latvia for the last 2 months. * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Latvia are back into positive territory in October at +3% year-on-year to 1,003 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 8,996…
Honda N-One by Mugen * See the Top 25 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * While sales of regular vehicles were down 9% year-on-year in October, Kei cars are actually up 0.5% to 133,790 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 1,705,405 units, up 36% on 2011. This comes at a…
Toyota Corolla in Islamabad, Pakistan. Picture by Mustafa Hashmi, all rights reserved. * See the Top 10 best-selling local models by clicking on the title! * For Pakistan we have access to sales of locally produced models, courtesy of the Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association. This is a pretty accurate representation of the…