Fiat holds 18.3% of the Turkish market in May. 30/06 update: Now with Top 25 models. Turkish new light vehicle sales are up 69.8% year-on-year in May to 54.734 units, the highest May total since 2018 when 72.755 units were sold. The year-to-date tally is now up 72% to 314.882. The…
Volkswagen sales are up 175.4% year-on-year in Turkey. Picture sabah.com.tr 7/06 update: Now with Top 25 models. New light vehicle sales in Turkey are up 132.4% year-on-year in April to 61.488 units. This ends three consecutive months of all-time record results but still marks the highest April volume since 2018…
Skoda sales are up 4-fold in March. Picture automotorsport.com.tr 30/04 update: Now with Top 25 models. It's another record for the Turkish market in March, the third in a row, up a whopping 92.8% year-on-year to 96.428 units which eclipses the previous best of 83.302 in March 2015. The year-to-date…
Fiat sales are up 85.5% year-on-year in Turkey in February. 26/03 update: Now with Top 25 models. The Turkish new light vehicle market continues on its record streak with sales up 24.1% to 58.504, believed to be a new all-time February high eclipsing the previous best of 57.246 from February 2015.…
Turkish Opel sales are up 3-fold year-on-year in January. 09/03 update: Now with accurate full month figures for the Top 25 models. January sales are traditionally weak in Turkey but this year the market starts all guns blazing, up 60.3% to 43.728 units. If the Turkish market spent all of…
Citroen sales are up 128.4% year-on-year in Turkey in 2020. Consult 25 years of Turkish Historical Data here. 29/01 update: Now with Top 25 models. After losing half its volume between 2017 (956.000 units) and 2019 (479.000) due to the economic meltdown that affected the country, the Turkish new light vehicle market…
Ford sales are up 90.7% year-on-year in November. Picture blog.ford.com.tr 31/12 update: Now with Top 25 models. New light vehicle sales in Turkey continue to surge after two years of economic crisis, albeit to a lesser extent in November as volumes are up 37.8% to 80.141 units, leading to a year-to-date…
Renault Megane sales are up 433.6% year-on-year in Turkey in October. The Turkish new light vehicle market continues to rejuvenate after two dreadful years, with October volumes up another 93% year-on-year to 94.733 units which leads to a year-to-date tally up 78.1% to 588.354. However as we have noted over the past…
Citroen sales are up 3-fold year-on-year in Turkey in September. Now with September Top 25 models. The August 2020 post has been updated with the Top 25 models. New light vehicle sales in Turkey once again display insolent good health in September at a surreal +115.8% year-on-year to 90.619 units, lifting…
Ford sales are up 417% year-on-year in Turkey in August. 05/10 update: Now with Top 25 models. Once again Turkish new light vehicle sales post extravagant numbers in August at +134.4% year-on-year to 61.533 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 68.4% to 403.002. However it must be noted that the…
Latin America is the worst-hit new car market globally in July, with Chile down -63.6%. LMC Automotive has now released its internal Global Light Vehicle (LV) sales for July 2020, showing a single-digit year-on-year decline for the first time since February. According to LMC, July global sales are down -6.8%…
The Skoda Scala lands directly at #7 in the June Passenger Cars ranking. 31/07 update: Now with June Top 25 models. 13/07 update: Now with June Top 10 models and H1 Top 80 models. It's definitely a seesaw year for Turkish new vehicle sales and June volumes bring their lot…
Citroen sales are up 134.9% in a market down -2.4%. 30/06 update: Now with Top 25 models. As the country progressively returns to normal after the COVID-19 crisis, Turkish new car sales drop just -2.4% year-on-year in May to 32.235 registrations, which in fact gives a false sense of recovery as…
Peugeot is the most popular brand in Turkey in April. 29/05 update: Now with Top 25 models. Following the spread of COVID-19 in Turkey, a 15-day entry ban to the 30 provinces with metropolitan status was imposed on April 3 but infections continued to rise through the month to reach 120.204…
Turkish sales went from +89.4% in February to +1.6% in March, but no COVID-19 lockdown yet means the coming slump may last longer. 30/04 update: Now with Top 25 models. Even though President Erdoğan urged the Turkish public to stay at home on March 18 and all international borders and…