The BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe already ranks inside the Dutch Top 50. New car sales in the Netherlands manage their first year-on-year gain since last February at +4% in July to 34.885 units, with the year-to-date tally now down -25.7% to 192.868. Volkswagen (-16.6%) remains the most popular brand…
The new Kamiq is helping Skoda sales up 58.7% in Israel. Thanks to our partnership with cartube.co.il, we can share with you today July brands data for Israel – models data are a quarterly occurrence. Israeli new car sales have stabilised at -1.3% year-on-year in July to 22.696 units, leading to…
Volkswagen sales surge 21.6% year-on-year in Belgium in June. 3/08 update: Now with Top 10 models. Although Belgium remains the country in the world with the largest Covid-19 death count per inhabitant, the pandemic is now under control and business has resumed to almost normal, illustrated by a spectacularly stabilised…
The Fiat Tipo is #1 in Lithuania. The Lithuanian new passenger car market sinks -40.8% year-on-year in June to 2.674 units, leading to a Q2 tally down -53.7% to 6.779 and a H1 volume off -28% to 16.821. Lithuania is the one market in the European Union where re-exports are…
Geely sales lift 40.9% to #3 brand in Belarus so far in 2020. It's a seesaw First Half of the year for new car sales in Belarus, with BAA reporting January volumes down -35%, February up 31.7%, March up a massive 65.9%, April collapsing -54.9%, May off -27.7% and June…
Dacia Duster sales are up 8-fold year-on-year in Slovenia in June. With a much reduced -5.8% year-on-year drop to 6.565 registrations in June, Slovenia enters a small circle of European markets having already stabilised post-Covid, alongside France (+1.2%), Belgium (-1.8%) and the Czech Republic (-5.2%). The year-to-date tally now stands…
The VW Polo is #1 in a traditionally weak June in Ireland. New car sales in Ireland post their best hold since February at -28.4% year-on-year in June to 1.009 units after collapsing -64% in March, -96.1% in April and -72.4% in May. This leads to a First Half volume…
Thanks to the new ZS EV, MG sales gain 22.7% in 2020. New car sales in the UK collapse -48.5% or 616.000 units to just 653.502 over the First Half of 2020. This is the lowest H1 volume in almost 50 years: since 1971 (623.483), at a time when the Austin…
The Skoda Scala breaks into the Polish Top 10 for the first time in June. 30/07 update: Now with H1 2020 Top 120 models. The Polish new car market skids -20% year-on-year in June to 35.133 units, a major improvement on the -54.8% of June but still a drastic fall, leading…
Volvo is the only Top 30 carmaker managing a double-digit gain in June. Italy has now been out of lockdown for two full months and its new car market accordingly improves month after month: from absolute hell in both March (-85.4%) and April (-97.5%) to -49.4% in May and -23.3% in June thanks…
Peugeot (+21.2%) posts the best performance of any Top 15 carmaker. Picture teknikensvarld.se Swedish new car sales slow down their fall in June but still reel from the coronavirus crisis at -22.2% year-on-year to 24.747 units, bringing the H1 2020 volume down -25.1% to 125.685. Rechargeable cars (EV and PHEV)…
Mercedes GLE imports are up 184% year-on-year thanks to a new model. After dropping by just -3.3% in April, sales of imported new cars in China go against the general rebound trend in China with a steep -9.9% decline in May to 89.577 units, which brings the year-to-date tally down…
Hongqi (+133.7%) symbolises the recovery of the Chinese market and its SUV segment, with both the brand (15.103) and the HS5 (9.117) breaking all-time records. Doing even better than the +11.7% anticipated, Chinese wholesales soar +14.5% year-on-year to 2.194.000 units according to data released by the China Association of Automobile…
Renault is up to 16.1% share in Bulgaria vs. 10.2% in 2020. The Bulgarian new car market freefalls -68.1% year-on-year in May to just 1.448 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -47.1% to 10.042. Renault (-50.3%) snaps the brands top spot for the first time in 2020, shooting up…
The Fiat Ducato is up to #2 overall in Germany in May. 11/06 update : Now with Top 285 All Private sales models. With car dealerships reopening as early as April 20, the -49.5% year-on-year drop of German new car sales in May to just 168.148 units can be considered…