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 Nissan Qashqai is up 66% year-on-year in Finland this month. * See the Top 30 best-selling models and brands by clicking on the title! * Finnish new car sales are down 5% year-on-year in April to 9,215 registrations, however the year-to-date total is still in positive at +6% and…
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…
Kashgari man and Jonway UFO A380 After exploring the extraordinary pick-up landscape in Kashgar, some 3.400km away from Beijing in South-Western China, we now go into its overall car landscape. In Chinese classification, we have gone from first-tier city (Beijing), 2nd-tier (Chongqing), 3rd-tier (Ürümqi) and now with Kashgar we are at…
The VW Golf is the best-selling model in Slovakia so far in 2014. * See the Top 240 All-models ranking and Top 37 brands by clicking on the title! * Slovak data comes to us with a bit of delay: today February figures are available with 5,767 new light vehicles finding a…
Dacia sales are up 40% in Belgium in March. * NOW UPDATED with the Top 45 All-brands and Top 320 All-models! Click on title to see * New car sales in Belgium are down 0.5% year-on-year in March to 52,808 registrations, bringing the year-to-date total to 148,532 units, down 0.4% on…
Peugeot 3008 * See the Top 80 models and Top 36 brands by clicking on the title! Thanks Peteris * Another very encouraging month for new car sales in Latvia: up 25% year-on-year to 1,230 registrations, which brings the First Quarter result to 3,451 units, up 24% on 2013. Brand-wise,…
Only commercialised in a handful of countries, the Ford F-Series is #3 worldwide in 2013. * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * As an appetiser for the full Top 1000 models that will be published shortly, I now give you temporary figures for the…
Hyundai Verna in Ürümqi (click on any picture to enlarge) This is Part 2 of my Ürümqi Photo Report, you can check out Part 1 about the surprising strength of budget Chinese brands here. Yesterday I reported on how the Shanghai Englon SC7, SC3 and SC6, Dongfeng Fengshen S30 and H30 Cross…
Chana Taurustar, Chana Star & Wuling Hongguang in Chongqing – April 2014 * See the Top 30 best-selling vehicles (PC and LCV) by clicking on the title! * Now that the Top 10 most popular Light Commercial Vehicles in China are known, I can give you the Top 30 best-selling…
Chongqing street scene (Click on any picture to enlarge) Now that you know the secrets of Beijing hutongs and the most impressive Chinese carmakers at the Beijing Auto Show, we go on a bit of adventure inside China. First stop is Chongqing, one of the fastest-growing cities on earth, 1.500km…
Skoda Octavia * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * 538 new light vehicles found a buyer in Bosnia in March, down 10% year-on-year and bringing the First Quarter total to 1,610 units according to data published by Central European market data specialists www.ceauto.co.hu. For the…
Dacia Duster * See the Top 10 best-selling models by clicking on the title! * Based on data communicated by Central European market data specialists www.ceauto.co.hu, 404 new cars were sold in the FYR of Macedonia in March, bringing the First Quarter total to 966 units. The Dacia Duster is the…
Chana Star in Dongsi hutong The legendary Beijing hutongs are tiny, charming alleyways formed by lines of traditional courtyard residences. An endangered species, the real Beijing lives and breathes in hutongs where a warm sense of community and hospitality survives. I was lucky enough to spend some time visiting hutongs during…