The Chevrolet Onix is the best-selling vehicle in Colombia in April. 8/06 update: Now with Top 70 All-models. Colombia has been under a strict national lockdown since March 20, originally scheduled to last until April 12, but extended multiple times since, to April 27, May 11 and May 25. All…
New car sales in China have already debuted their post-virus recovery. This is a preliminary update, complete data will be published when available. After we already reported on signs of recovery with retail sales up 14% year--year over the April 7-12 week, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) announced today…
1 in every 4 new cars registered in Israel in April is a Toyota. Picture drivetime.co.il Thanks to our partnership with cartube.co.il, we can share with you today Israeli April brands data, models data is a quarterly occurrence. The country was under a strict COVID-19 lockdown for the entire month and…
The Volvo XC40 is the only Top 8 model to gain volume year-on-year. Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden has chosen not to go the lockdown route, instead opting for social distancing recommendations. As a result the confirmed infections and deaths have continued to rise steadily, from 4.435 and 180…
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 Skoda Kamiq is up to a record #12 in Finland in April. Picture hs.fi 3/06 update: Now with Top 32 All-brands and Top 50 models. The COVID-19 state of emergency in Finland was extended to May 13, but it only involves the closure of most schools and government-run public…
41 US States and Territories were under stay-at-home orders in April. 8/05 update: Now with Volvo brand and models data. New light vehicle sales in the U.S. collapse -53% year-on-year in April to just 625.000 units according to estimates from ALG, Cox and Edmunds, pulling the year-to-date tally down -22.4% to…
The Kia Niro is #1 in the Netherlands for the 2nd time in the past 3 months. The Netherlands have managed to escape a full national lockdown over the past couple of months, and the new car market losses are therefore not as devastating as in neighbouring countries. After March…
06/05 update: Now with refined final data for the Top 25 brands and Top 100 models. 01/05 update: Now with Top 55 brands and Top 360 models. New car sales in Europe-27 markets (EU+EFTA+UK) collapse -51.9% year-on-year in March to just 848.800 units according to figures released by JATO Dynamics,…
The French must provide a movement certificate to be allowed out. French sales data published today on local weekly Auto Plus shows April volumes down -96% year-on-year halfway through the month as the country remains under strict lockdown. Daily sales rates have plummeted to 268 vs. 312 at the start of the…
The Nissan Micra ranks #7 in New Caledonia in March. New Caledonia, a French overseas archipelago located north-east of Australia, was in lockdown between March 24 and April 19 (vs. March 17 to at least May 11 for the French mainland), and seems to have wrestled COVID-19 to the ground with…
The Hyundai Grandeur posts it largest volume since December 2016. 20/04 update: Now with Top 10 foreign models. South Korea has managed to wrestle COVID-19 to the ground for now, going from #2 most affected country in the world as of March 6 when we initially published February 2020 data…
The Suzuki S-Presso leaps up to #4 overall in Uruguay in March. In Uruguay, various COVID-19 containment measures were introduced in mid-March, and major restrictions on movement followed in late March. As a result the country's new car market has seen a relatively moderate impact in March at -24.8% year-on-year…
The Toyota Aygo is up 82.8% year-on-year in a market down -60.7%. Greece increased COVID-19 related restrictions all through March, starting with national school closures in affected areas (March 10) and retail closures (March 16) and culminating in a nationwide lockdown from March 23 onwards. As a result the new…
Mercedes manages the only single-digit drop in the Top 20. After strict lockdowns stifled February wholesales down -79.1% and just as the rest of the world gets hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese new vehicle market is already bouncing back quite spectacularly, as we already mentioned in the past week.…