VW Polo * See the Top 10 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * While the First Quarter leaders in both models (Hyundai Accent) and brands (Hyundai) rankings mysteriously disappear from the Top 10 this month, the VW Polo brilliantly takes the lead of the sales charts…
VW Santana in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur - May 2014 * See the Top 339 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * As is the tradition on BSCB, after exploring detailed sales for April and focusing on the all-new models for the month, we now go into the year-to-date charts…
Mazda bucks the trend at +64%... * NOW UPDATED with the Top 188 best-selling models! Thanks Roberto * In April, only 6,545 new light vehicles were sold in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), down 14.5% on April 2013. It is the sharpest year-on-year decline since BSCB started…
Haval H6 Sport * NOW UPDATED with the Top 65 brands & Top 312 models! Click on title to see * Passenger vehicle sales in China are up 13% year-on-year in April to 1.5 million as consumers brought forward purchases in anticipation more cities will implement ownership restrictions to fight pollution…
Audi A3 * See the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 48 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Austria are down 5% year-on-year in April to 29,240 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total into negative at -0.3% and 110,521 units. The Volkswagen Group manages to places…
Dacia Dokker * See the Top 175 models and Top 32 brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Kalo * New car sales in Bulgaria are up an estimated 18% year-on-year in April to 2,381 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 8,380 units, up 15% or over 1,000 sales on…
BYD markets the L3 as the 'New F3' in Uruguay. * See the Top 44 All-brands ranking by clicking on the title! Thanks Leandro * New car sales in Uruguay may have plateaued for a bit: they are down 2% year-on-year in April to 4,281 registrations, however the year-to-date total…
Fiat remains the most popular brand in Lithuania * See the Top 10 best-selling brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Marius * 1,355 new cars found a buyer in Lithuania in April, adding up to 4,586 so far in 2014 after 4 months. Fiat continues to dominate the brands…
VW Tiguan * See the Top 300 best-selling models and Top 50 brands by clicking on the title! * It's not quite full-on recovery territory for Germany yet with sales down 4% year-on-year in April to 274,097 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 985,850 units, up 3% on 2013. Below the…
The sedan variant boosts the Audi A3 to unheard-of heights in the UK. * See the Top 10 best-selling models and Top 42 All-brands by clicking on the title! * The UK market shows no sign of decelerating, delivering an astounding 26th consecutive month of year-on-year growth at +8% in…
Wuling Hongguang in Ürümqi, China - April 2014 * See the Top 20 best-selling brands and Top 5 models by clicking on the title! * Thanks to LMC Auto we have more detailed data for China, now including the all-important Light Commercial Vehicle sales. 555,111 LCVs found a new home…
Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV * See the Top 170 best-selling models and Top 40 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Dutch new car sales are down 6% year-on-year in March to 28,479 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 135,542 units, down 7% on 2013. Before reading this analysis you have…
Seat Ibiza * See the Top 215 best-selling models and Top 47 All-brands by clicking on the title! * Stuck in hell for a few very long years, the Spanish new car market is definitely smelling the roses now: up 28% year-on-year to 80,210 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to…
Volvo XC60 * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 35 All-brands by clicking on the title! * New car sales in Sweden continue at full steam ahead: up another 14% year-on-year in April to 27,543 registrations which brings the year-to-date total to 95,346 units, up 19% on 2013. Volvo…
The VW Golf is back to the year-to-date pole position in Norway * NOW UPDATED with the Top 100 models & Top 30 brands! Thanks Jan * Whereas the European market is slowly waking up from 6 years of lethargy, new car sales in Norway are down a surprisingly harsh…