Volkswagen was the #1 brand in Italy in December. Consult 95 years of Italian Historical Data here. The Italian new car market rallies back up 19% or 250,000 sales year-on-year in 2023 to 1,566,448 units. This is however 350,000 units (-18.3%) below pre-pandemic 2019. Private sales trail the market at…
The BMW X1 breaks its Spanish ranking record in November. The Spanish new car market advances 7% year-on-year in November to 78,314 units, leading to a year-to-date volume up 17.3% to 867,587. Encouragingly, private sales soar 14% to 40,785 for the month with company sales up just 3.3% to 32,674…
The Peugeot 2008 is up to a record 2nd place in Slovenia this month. The Slovenian new car market is up 13% year-on-year to 3,881 units, this still being a lukewarm result as October 2022 was down -18.7% on the year prior. The year-to-date tally now stands at 42,258, up…
The MG 4 is among the 10 favourite cars of German private buyers. Picture autobild.de The October Private Sales (PS) ratio for the overall German market in October stands at 36.1%, equalling to 79,044 units out of a total market of 218,959. Ranking #7 last month and #19 in the…
The Fiat 500 is the most popular vehicle in Germany in October. The German new car market advances 5.1% year-on-year in October to 218,959 sales, still significantly below the growth rate it has shown for the most part of this year. Indeed the year-to-date volume is up 13.7% to 2,357,025.…
The MG 4 is the best-selling vehicle in Ireland in October. As the year comes to an end, the Irish new car market traditionally dwindle to just a trickle of sales, awaiting January's licence plate change. Worse, volumes accelerate their fall in October to -16.9% year-on-year and 2,174 units vs.…
The Avenger helps lift Jeep's European sales 2/11 update: Now with Top 85 All brands and Top 460 All models. Preliminary data by ACEA has the European market (EU+EFTA+UK) up 11.1% to 1,166,728 units compared to 1,050,312 in September 2022. This is the 14th consecutive year-on-year gain and brings the…
The Tesla Model Y is the favourite of private customers in Germany. The September Private Sales (PS) ratio in Germany is 33.1% which equates to 74,310 sales out of a total of 224,502. Year-to-date, the PS ratio is 31.9% or 682,043 out of 2,138,066. Leader year-to-date, the Tesla Model Y…
The Kia Sportage is the best-selling vehicle in Cyprus in September. Data shared with us by our local partners SEMO Cyprus and INNOSOFT show a Cyprus new car market shooting up 28.6% year-on-year in September to 1,525 sales. This brings the year-to-date tally up 27.7% to 11,580. Market leaders Kia (-1.1%) and…
The Dacia Sandero is the best-selling vehicle in Bulgaria in September. Bulgarian new light vehicle sales leap up 42.2% year-on-year in September to 3,377 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 24.3% to 31,251. Note that thanks to low prices, many of these cars are re-exported to the European Union…
New wind for the VW Golf at home. New car sales in Germany are flat in September at -0.1% year-on-year to 224,502, leading to a year-to-date volume up 14.5% to 2,138,066. September is down -8.2% on pre-pandemic September 2019 (244,622) and YTD is down -22% over the same period in…
VW T-Roc New vehicle sales in Japan soar 10.7% year-on-year in September to 437,493 units, meaning the year-to-date volume is now up 15.6% to 3,607,486. Toyota (+18%) once again beats the market but at 31.1% share it remains below its YTD volume of 33.5%. Suzuki (+5.6%) follows at 14.1% share…
The MG ZS is the best-selling vehicle in Spain for the 2nd month running. New car sales in Spain confirms the slowdown of its growth rate with a meagre +2.3% year-on-year in September to 68,803 units. The year-to-date tally is now up 18.5% to 711,380, yet down -15.8% on the…
The Jeep Avenger breaks into the Italian Top 10 for the first time. 136,283 new cars hit Italian roads in September, corresponding to a 22.8% year-on-year surge on September 2022 which was already up 5.4% on the year prior. We now are just -4.9% below pre-pandemic September 2019 which is…
An outstanding month for the Nissan Qashqai in Hungary. Passenger Car sales disappoint once again in Hungary with a -10.4% year-on-year slide in August to 8,951 units. The year-to-date tally is now off -3.2 % to 73,879. When adding Light Commercial Vehicles, the market is down -1.5% year-to-date to 87,534. Toyota…