Renault Clio * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! Many thanks to STAC for making this post possible * French consumers decided they'd buy a new car this year: at 2,148,423 registrations the market is up 10%. The Renault Clio keeps…
Holden Commodore * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to David * The new car market in Australia is down year-on-year for the first time since 1991 at -3% to 786,845 units. The two leaders evolve differently this year: while the Holden Commodore is…
Ford Fiesta * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Florian * In 1998 no less than four Fords flirted with the title of UK's best-selling car. The Ford Escort made the most of its last year of life and even climbed back…
The Toyota Corolla is #1 in Finland for the 12th time overall. * See the Top 40 All-brands and Top 50 models by clicking on the title * In 1998 the Finnish new car market gains a further 19.8% year-on-year to 125.211 registrations, the highest annual score in almost a decade…
Toyota Avensis * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Launched in 1997 to replace the Carina, already very succesful in the country, the Toyota Avensis starts with a bang in Denmark and holds the pole position for its first full year of sales with…
The Isuzu Faster Z is now available as a 4WD called Rodeo. New vehicle sales in Thailand edge up 3.1% in 1996 to a new record 546.853, with Toyota (+2.7%) coming up with a round 30% share with Isuzu (+2.1%), Nissan (+5.9%) and Mitsubishi (+6.6%) all above 10%. Honda (+44.1%)…
Toyota Corolla * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Florian + Joe * In the passenger car category, the Toyota Corolla celebrates its 30th consecutive year atop the Japanese models ranking with 198,498 sales (-18% on 1997), nearly double the amount of…
Holden Commodore * See the Top 50 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to David * In 1998 the Australian car market breaks its own record for the 2nd time in a row, up 12% to pass the 800,000 annual units for the first time at 807,649, only…
175,750 new vehicles found a buyer in Venezuela in 1998, stable on the past year (+0.4%). Chevrolet leads the brands ranking with 25.5% share ahead of Ford at 16.6%, Toyota at 14% and the Chrysler Group at 11.4%. The Top 4 models all lose volume on the year prior. The…
Timor also sold the very rare SW516. The South-East Asian financial and economic crisis has an absolutely devastating effect on new car sales in Indonesia, down -84.1% to go from a record 336.968 units in 1997 to just 53.412 in 1998, the lowest annual volume in 23 years (since 1975).…
Ford F-Series * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 70 Passenger Cars by clicking on the title! * Excellent year for car sales in the USA: 9 out of the Top 10 best-selling models in the country see their sales grow year-on-year! The Ford F-Series leads the charge as…
The Proton Saga reclaims the Malaysian pole position in a difficult context. The financial crisis hits the Malaysian new car market full frontal in 1998: sales implode down -58.7% to just 164.402 units, the lowest annual result since 1993 (151.776). In uncertain times, consumers tend to return to trusted values…
Opel Corsa * See the Top 30 best-selling models by clicking on 'Read more' at end of post! * Contrary to common belief, the Toyota Corolla has not been the best-selling car in the world each year since 1975. I do not have any official data for the 1975-96 period…
The Fiat Punto is the best-selling vehicle in Ireland in 1998. It's a 5th consecutive year in positive for the Irish new car market in 1998 at +6.6% to 145.715 registrations. This year it's Toyota (+23.5%) that spectacularly takes the lead of the brands ranking at 11.5% share, but it…
Toyota Tamaraw FX * See the Top 100 best-selling models by clicking on the title! - Thanks to myk for the data * If the Filipino car market loses only 11% in 1997 at 144,441 registrations, it plunges by 45% in 1998 at 80,193 units as a result of the…