Wuling Sunshine * See the Top 5 best-selling LCV and Top models overall by clicking on the title! * Sales of new Light Commercial Vehicles are up 5% year-on-year both in April at 456,651 registrations and year-to-date at 1,886,368 units. After 3 consecutive months of domination by the Wuling Hongguang,…
Strong full-sized pickup sales are driving the US market to almost 10% growth in 2013. * See the Full article by clicking on the title! * Both LMC Automotive/J.D. Power and TrueCar.com predict May US auto sales will rebound from an April slowdown to exceed 1.4 million units, a 9%…
Honda Accord * See the Top 15 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * California is the largest new car market in the USA and over the first Quarter of 2013 it is up a massive 13% year-on-year to 403,658 registrations, to be compared with +7% in the USA…
Ford Explorer * See the Top 270 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Check out Mid West Title Loans here! Now that we have gone through the Top 258 All-models ranking for April, as usual let's explore the year-to-date ranking in more detail to extract longer-term trends. Overall the US market…
Bob Graziano: "Manufacturing in Australia is no longer viable" Breaking news: In a press conference that started 30 minutes ago, Ford Australia President and CEO Bob Graziano has announced that Ford is pulling out of manufacturing cars in Australia in October 2016. Graziano has confirmed local production of the Falcon, Falcon…
Toyota RAV4 * See the Top 196 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Good news for new car sales in Puerto Rico this month: frankly back in positive territory at +11% year-on-year to 7,638 registrations, which brings the year-to-date total to 32,276 units, up 5% on 2012. Very…
Hyundai Elantra GT * NOW UPDATED with the Top 258 All-models and Top 40 brands! Click on title to see * New car sales in the US are up an excellent 8% year-on-year in April to 1,285,338 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 4,974,000 units, up a solid 7% on 2012.…
Meet the best-selling plug-in vehicle in the US, the Tesla Model S. * See the Top 5 best-selling plug-ins by clicking on the title! * Sales of Tesla Model S cars in the US (and worldwide for that matter) have been very hard to find as Tesla generally doesn't report…
Toyota RAV4 * See the Top 200 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Puerto Rican new car sales are down 7% year-on-year in March to 8,364 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 24,638 units, up 3% on 2012. The March Top 4 models is identical to the year-to-date…
The Nissan Qashqai strikes again... * See the Full article by clicking on the title! * As promised yesterday it's a fast turnaround to give you the World March roundup. In February the Nissan Qashqai was the worldwide star of the month, and in March, well don't take this the…
The Chery E5 could be just what the Chinese needed after all... * See the Full article by clicking on the title! * It's no secret that apart from in the LCV segment, Chinese brands have been struggling at home for a while (see China February 2012: When will Chinese…
Ford Fusion * See the Top 266 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * After exploring the US Top 260 All-models and Top 30 brands rankings for March, let's go through a bit of a year-to-date update now that the First Quarter of 2013 is complete. Overall, the US market is…
Cadillac ATS. Cadillac sales are up 49% in the US this month * See the Top 30 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! * Now that we have gone through the Top 260 All-models ranking in the US for March, let's see which brands are selling best in the…
Nissan Altima * NOW UPDATED with the Top 260 All-models ranking! Click on title to see * The US new car market slows down its growth in March, up just 3% to 1,452,946 registrations which brings the year-to-date total to 3,688,662 units, up 6% on 2012. The Ford F-Series continues…
Fiat 500L * See my previous article about the Fiat 500L by clicking on the title! * When Fiat launched the 500L last summer it was a bit of a bet: instead of renewing the Punto which needs it badly, instead they decided to build on the worldwide success of…