Sales of Peugeot 308 in Greece are up 12-fold year-on-year in January. Solid start of the year for Greek new car sales at +3.7% to 9.210 units. Brand leader Toyota (-5.4%) isn't surfing on the positive wave but remains in the lead at 12.5%, even though Peugeot (+10.6%), Opel (+10.3%)…
The Dacia Duster shoots up to a record 6th place in Italy in January. The Italian new car market starts 2019 in a rather paltry way: down 7.9% year-on-year in January to 165.536 units. New car sales in Italy this month offer a starkly contrasting picture: for once private sales…
The Fiat 500 holds a mammoth 17.8% of all Lithuanian new car sales in 2018. Consult close to 50 years of Lithuanian Historical Data here. New car registrations in Lithuania shoot up a fantastic 25.4% year-on-year in 2018 to 32.447 units, making it the most dynamic market in the whole…
The Skoda Octavia is the best-selling vehicle in Serbia for the first time. Consult over a decade of Serbian Historical Data here. The Serbian new car market soars up 12.1% year-on-year in 2018 to 33.087 registrations according to our Eastern European partner CE Auto. Local publication Vrele Gume has this figure…
The Renault Clio has now topped the Portuguese sales charts 10 times since 1999. Consult 30 years of Portugal Historical Data here. New car sales in Portugal advance for the 6th consecutive year in 2018 at +2.8% to 228.327 registrations, posting the highest annual volume in at least 15 years.…
The Jeep Renegade ranked on the monthly Italian podium twice in 2018. Consult over 60 years of Italian Historical Data here. This article has been updated with the Top 50 brands, Top 150 models, Top 35 LCV brands and Top 10 LCV models. 2018 puts an end to four consecutive…
Fiat Tipo sales are up 109% year-on-year in Lithuania in November. According to our partner JATO Dynamics, the Lithuanian new car market surges 17.2% year-on-year in November to 2.841 registrations, leading to a year-to-date tally up 25.5% to 29.992 units. The Fiat 500 (+87%) remains ultra-dominant with 16.1% share, followed…
The Panda swims upstream in the midst of Fiat debacle: +16% in November. After -25.5% in September and -8% in October, the Italian market continues to slowly recover from post-WLTP hangover with November deliveries down another 6.8% to 148.024 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down 3.6% to 1.798.078. Following a…
The Volvo XC40 breaks into the Swedish monthly Top 5 for the first time. -49.4% in July, -17.5% in August, -39.6% in September, -28.1% in October and now -20.5% in November: the Swedish new car market endures a 5th consecutive month of double-digit decline, impacted by two pull-forward events earlier…
Almost 1 in every 3 new cars sold in Lithuania this month is a Fiat 500. Thanks to our partnership with JATO Dynamics we can share with you today October sales for Lithuania. In contrast with the other two baltic states (Estonia and Latvia) still suffering from post-WLTP blues, the…
The Toyota C-HR is up 223% year-on-year to 2nd place overall in Lithuania. * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title * After artificially soaring 58.5% in August due to pre-WLTP registrations, new car sales in Lithuania post a surprisingly measured drop in September at -8.3%…
The Renault Duster is the best-selling vehicle in Ukraine so far in 2018. * See the Top 50 All-brands and Top 270 All-models by clicking on the title * Note this posts includes both August and September data but commentary focuses on September only. After a 11.1% uptick in August…
The Toyota Yaris is up to #2 in Italy, a ranking it had not reached in almost 11 years. * See the Top 45 brands and Top 50 models by clicking on the title * Even though the pre-WLTP August surge in Italy was muted compared to other main EU…
The Fiat 500 is up 144% to hold a gargantuan 23% share in Lithuania in August. * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title * As a traditionally strong user of re-exports, Lithuania is logically caught into the pre-WLTP stock clearance game more than its Baltic…
The Hyundai i30 is up 486% year-on-year to #2 this month in Austria. * See the Top 50 All-brands and Top 310 All-models by clicking on the title * Helped by a solid dose of non WLTP-compliant stock clearing as is the case in most of the European Union this…