The Suzuki Jimny breaks into the Mexican Top 20 in February. Picture autocosmos.com.mx The Mexican new light vehicle market sinks another -21.1% year-on-year in February to 82.323 units, leading to a year-to-date tally off -21.8% to 163.526. Brand leader Nissan (-19.2%) manages to keep its loss below the market rate and…
Fiat Strada sales are up 80.6% year-on-year in February. New light vehicle sales in Brazil drop -17.8% year-on-year in February to 158.237 units, leading to a year-to-date tally off -14.8% to 320.793. Fiat (+26.2%) continues to be completely oblivious to the market decline and simply scores the largest and only…
Toyota Hilux sales are up 119.3% year-on-year in January. New light vehicle sales in Mexico drop -22.5% year-on-year in January to 81.203 units for what is an 11th straight double-digit fall. Brand leader Nissan (-15.6%) resists better than the market and sees its share rise to 21.8% vs. 20.5% over…
Jeep scores its first ever Top 5 finish in Brazil. The Brazilian new light vehicle market drops -11.7% year-on-year in January to 162.567 units but the daily sales rate is down just -1.3%. Fiat (+19.3%) starts the year all guns blazing and returns to the brands top spot for the…
First podium finish for the Chevrolet Onix in Mexico. In October, the Mexican new light vehicle market drops -21.3% year-on-year to 84.307 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -29.6% to 748.501 sales. Brand leader Nissan (-20.3%) does a little better than the market to comfortably stay in first place…
The Chevrolet Onix Plus breaks its volume record in Brazil this month. New light vehicle sales manage to contain their loss to single digits for the first time since the pandemic hit in November at -7.2% to 214.265 units, the second month in a row above 200.000 sales. The year-to-date…
The Suzuki Vitara cracks the Colombian Top 10 in September. 16/10 update: Now with Top 30 brands and Top 75 models. Colombia is now the 5th most affected country in the world with 924.000 total Covid-19 cases as of today. However the situation is bettering and the country has been…
The Seltos (#11) helps Kia to a new share record in September in Mexico. The Mexican new light vehicle market is stuck in hell with September volumes off another -22.8% year-on-year to 77.784 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -30.5% to 664.218. Brand leader Nissan (-10.7%) once again resists much…
The Fiat Strada is the best-selling vehicle in Brazil this month. Although enduring a 7th consecutive double-digit year-on-year fall, Brazilian new vehicle sales drastically reduce their drop in September at "just" -10.9% to 198.792 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -32.9% to 1.298.630 vs. 1.934.890 over the same period…
The VW T-Cross is up to #3 overall in Brazil in June. As is currently the case in the U.S., the coronavirus pandemic is still roaming free in Brazil with 941.475 additional reported cases (total 1.5 million) and 31.947 additional lives lost (total 61.884) over the past month alone. Even…
The new generation lifts the Chevrolet Tracker to its very first Top 10 finish. Brazil is in the midst of a worsening COVID-19 crisis, and its new car market is down -76.8% year-on-year in April to 51.362 units, estimated to be the lowest monthly volume in 27 years and pulling…
The Fiat Argo (+30.8%) posts the only gain among the Top 12 models. The coronavirus crisis has hit Brazilian new car sales in March at -21.9% to 155.810 registrations, the weakest March volume in 14 years, since 2006 (148.234). The year-to-date tally is now down -8.2% to 532.549. However Brazil's…
Ford Ranger sales are up 15.9% in a market down -31.7%. The new vehicle market in Argentina continues to freefall at -31.7% year-on-year in September to 35.781 units, leading to a year-to-date tally imploding down -44.5% to just 377.619 registrations, by far the lowest result at this stage of the…
It's another record year for the Chevrolet Onix in Brazil. Consult Brazilian Historical Data spanning the last 60 years here. Recovery is confirmed in Brazil with 2018 marking the 2nd consecutive year of growth at +13.7% to 2.470.654 registrations, even accelerating the pace after +9.4% in 2017. We are still…
New volume and share records for the Fiat Argo in Brazil this month. * See the Top 20 best-selling brands and Top 150 models by clicking on the title * The Brazilian new light vehicle market celebrates 17 consecutive months of year-on-year gains in September at +5.8% to 204.733 units,…