Peugeot sales soar 21.3% year-on-year in a depleted market. No sign of improvement for new car sales in Finland with April marking the 7th double-digit year-on-year drop in the past 8 months at -12.3% to 9.538 units, leading to a YTD tally down -14.8% to 38.276. Toyota (-15.9%) falls faster…
Audi is up to equal #3 with BMW in March in Luxembourg. This article has been updated with the Top 10 models. The Luxembourg new car market gains 4.5% year-on-year in March to 5.621 registrations, lifting the year-to-date volume up 4% to 14.867. Volkswagen remains the unattainable brands lead at…
The new hatch lifts Toyota Corolla sales up 103%. According to our partner JATO Dynamics, new car sales in Latvia soar 15.4% year-on-year in March to 1.618 units, lifting the Q1 volume up 6.6% to 4.461. The top best-sellers all post spectacular gains: the VW Golf (+42.2%), Toyota RAV4 (+49.2%),…
The Tesla Model 3 is the outright best-seller in 3 European markets: Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland. Picture popularmechanics.com. New car sales in Switzerland return to positive territory for the first time since July 2018 and only the third time in 12 months (add April 2018) with March deliveries up 3% to 28.958…
Audi Q3 sales shoot up 81.4% thanks to the new model. This article has been updated with the Top 50 private sales models. German new car sales tilt back into negative for the 6th time in the past 7 months in March at -0.5% to 345.523 units, yet thanks to…
The Dacia Duster is the best-selling vehicle in Poland in March. Picture motospace.pl Polish new light vehicle sales edge down -1.4% year-on-year in March to 56.489 units including light commercials, yet a solid start of the year enables the YTD tally to remain in positive at +1% to 156.737. 6…
The Skoda Scala has landed in its home charts with a bang. The Czech new car market is embattled in a post-WLTP depression with March marking a 7th consecutive year-on-year decline at -12.1% to 21.491 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down -12.2% to 59.616. However 5 of the Top 6…
The new Toyota Corolla is already #5 in Finland. New car sales in Finland remain a desolate landscape: March is down an abysmal -21.2% to 9.141 units, marking a 6th double-digit drop in the past 7 months and a 7th decline in as many months. The year-to-date volume is now…
Suzuki is the only one of the Big 5 carmakers to post a gain in March. As the end of the Japanese Financial Year, March volumes are always 35 to 40% higher than any other month in Japan and therefore is of capital importance. This year Japan new vehicle sales…
The Pajero Sport (+59.2%) helps Mitsubishi sales soar 15% in March. New vehicle sales in Australia have now closed the loop: in negative year-on-year for a full 12 months in a row. March marks the lowest result for the month since 2014, down -7.1% to 99.442 units and leading to…
The Fiat Egea accounts for 1 in 8 new vehicles registered in Turkey in March. New car sales in Turkey dive down -35.5% in March to 49.221 units including light commercials, and although this is a paltry result, in the current atrocious context it actually is the smallest year-on-year decline…
The Jetour X90 has landed in the Chinese retail charts. Last month's retail figures (+24.5%) showed a spectacular turnaround that seemed so out of place - given wholesales have been declining for 8 straight months - they left us hanging. Unfortunately February retail sales aren't good news, rather a hard slap…
The Skoda Octavia is the best-selling vehicle in Lithuania in 2019 so far. Thanks to our partnership with JATO Dynamics we conclude our exploration of the Baltic states with Lithuanian figures, an extremely dynamic market so far this year at +94.5% to 3.122 units, leading to a year-to-date volume up…
The Toyota RAV4 is the best-selling vehicle in Latvia in February. Based on data released by our partner JATO Dynamics, new car sales in Latvia gain 3.9% year-on-year to 1.303 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 2.2% to 2.843. The Toyota RAV4 (+106.1%) shoots up from outside the January…
The Vauxhall Grandland X is an instant blockbuster in the UK. Traditionally very secretive, we now have the chance to study UK 2018 figures in a lot more detail with a Top 250 models instead of the usual Top 10. Just outside the familiar ten, the Vauxhall Mokka (-14.1%) is…