VW Polo * See the Top 60 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * The Icelandic new car market is slowly recovering from the 2008-09 crisis, with sales up 32% on 2009 to a still extremely shy 3,395 units. The new generation VW Polo is an instant hit in…
The Suzuki Wagon R finishes the year as the best selling Kei car in Japan for the 8th consecutive time with 195,108 registrations (-3%), thanks to a very strong month of December at 14,928 sales. The Daihatsu Tanto, leader of the market up to November, ends up #2 at 191,391…
Slovak car sales finish the year at 64,033, down 27%. For the first time ever and after 10 consecutive years of Skoda Fabia domination, the best selling car in the country is the Skoda Octavia with 5,675 sales and 8.9%. The Fabia drops to 2nd at 4,766 sales (7.4%). The…
The New Zealand market is very dynamic in 2010, up 14% at 80,453 units. The Toyota Corolla keeps the lead with 4,890 sales and 6.1% market share, ahead of the Hilux (4.3%), Suzuki Swift (3.4%) and Holden Commodore (3.2%). 2010 Ranking Table below. Pos Model 2010 % 1 Toyota Corolla…
* See the Top 290 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Kostas * The Greek car market was hit hard by the economic crisis this year, down 36% to 141,404 registrations, with December down 62%. #6 in 2009, the Toyota Yaris is the best-selling car in Greece…
Street Scene in Yerevan, Armenia. Picture by ls2_zed. All rights reserved. * Click on title for more street scenes and videos! * Lada dominates Armenian car sales, with the 2104/2105 very likely to be the best-seller, and the 4x4 (aka Niva) also doing well in spite of its old age.…
Daihatsu Tanto Custom In November, the Daihatsu Tanto regains the lead of the Japanese Kei cars ranking with 13,217 sales, ahead of the Suzuki Wagon R at 12,881 sales. Year-to-date, the Tanto is #1 too with 180,716 sales vs. 180,177 for the Wagon R. 2010 could very well be the…
Jamaican Toyota Corolla * Click on title for street scenes and videos! * Around one third of vehicles in the streets of the capital city Kingston are various generations of Toyota Corollas, and the current model is in all likeliness still the best selling car in Jamaica. The Jamaican car market…
* Click on title for street scenes and video! * The Nicaraguan car market is pretty easy to read as 2 cars stand out by far: the Toyota Hilux, probably the best-selling car in Nicaragua, and the Toyota Yaris Sedan following not far behind. Other popular cars in the country…
* Click on title for street scenes and videos! * As in neighbouring Dominican Republic, Haitians seem to be fond of Nissan pick-ups, with the Nissan Frontier really successful. However its seems the Ford Ranger has taken the lead in this troubled year 2010 in Haiti. Pick-ups are a great…
* Click on title for street scenes and videos! * The observation of the streets of the capital Brazzaville reveal that the Toyota Hilux should hold the title of best-selling vehicle in the Republic of Congo in 2010, with the Ford Ranger, Mitsubishi L200 and Toyota Corolla & Hiace also…
In this blog I normally focus on best performances and don't dwell on the weak ones, but this is such shocking news that it had to be the main headline: the Tana Nano only found 509 new owners in the whole of India last month... This is very bad news…
* Click on title for street scenes and videos! * No less than half the cars in circulation in Bamako, Mali's capital and biggest city, are old Mercedes imported from Europe: mainly 1980's Mercedes 190 & 220/230 and 1990's Mercedes C Class. As far as new cars are concerned, the…
* Click on the title for an Estimated Top 15, street videos and street scenes! * Observation of the streets of the capital Luanda show that the Angolan car market is quite developed, and dominated by the Toyota Hilux and Mitsubishi L200. Other very popular cars are the Chevrolet Matiz, Toyota…
* Click on title for street scenes and videos! * The Burkinabe car market is relatively developed, at least in the capital Ouagadougou, with a respectable amount of new cars in the streets. The Toyota Hilux should lead the sales in Burkina Faso, other successful cars being the Suzuki Grand…