The VW Golf is the best-selling vehicle in Sweden despite a ghastly -28.4% drop. Last year the Swedish market didn't operate like most European countries that recorded pre-WLTP rushes over Summer. Instead, a new bonus/malus pricing system was put in place on July 1 and depleted the market greatly over…
The VW T-Cross is up to a world-best 4th place in the Netherlands. A logical clawback from an artificially boosted August 2018, new car sales in the Netherlands fall -17.2% to 34.230 units this month but are up 15.7% on August 2017, a more realistic comparison base. All-in-all, the YTD…
The new A-Class (+50.8%) helps Mercedes up 18.2% in July. 04/09/2019 update: Now with the Top 55 brands and Top 350 models. 28/08/2019 update: Now with an exclusive Top 100 models. New car registrations in Europe 27 markets gain 1.2% year-on-year in July to 1.325.600 units, the largest July volume…
The Sandero (+12%) helps Dacia hit a record 6th place in Spain in August. The Spanish new car market logically falls -29% year-on-year in August because one year ago the market was artificially boosted up 49% by pre-WLTP stock clearing registrations. A better comparison set is August 2017, and this…
The Toyota Yaris ranks equal #2 in North Macedonia in July. According to our Eastern European data partner CE Auto, the North Macedonian new car market is up 10.1% year-on-year in July to 590 sales, leading to a year-to-date volume up 25.4% to 4.379. The VW Golf (+52.6%) leaps back up…
The Toyota Corolla is the best-selling vehicle in Lithuania in July. The Lithuanian new car market freefalls -18.1% year-on-year in July to 2.266 registrations, bringing the revised year-to-date tally down -20.3% to 14.909. Like last month, the Toyota Corolla returns a full scoreboard by ranking #1 in every Baltic state…
The Toyota RAV4 steps up to #2 YTD in Latvia. New car sales in Latvia show strong resolve in July at +13% to 1.580 units, leading to a revised year-to-date volume now down -5.4% at 9.904. The Toyota Corolla (+262.5%) remains the most popular vehicle in the country both for…
The Toyota Corolla remains the best-selling vehicle in Estonia, but just. The Estonian new car market lifts +7.7% year-on-year in July to 2.429 registrations, leading to a year-to-date tally down -7.9% to 15.506. The Toyota Corolla (+636.4%) holds onto the top spot for just 3 sales above the YTD leader,…
The Skoda Karoq breaks into the Bosnian Top 10 for the first time in July. Based on data share by our Central European data partner CE Auto, the Bosnian new car market gains a solid 6% year-on-year in July to 1.044 registrations, leading to a year-to-date tally now down just -2.9%…
The Peugeot 208 and Citroen C3 are the best-selling models in France in July. 27/08/2019 update: Now with the Top 50 All-brands and Top 353 All-models. If the June -8.4% fall appeared higher than it really was due to two less selling days vs. June 2018, the situation is reversed…
The Toyota Corolla was #1 in the world 1980. 20/08/2019 update: Now with information for 1983 (1 new and 2 updated articles). The direct links to 36 Historical World posts are below. Thanks to Florian at Interautonews I can now share with you the world's best-selling models in much more detail…
The Mercedes EQC has landed in Switzerland. New car sales in Switzerland edge up 0.1% year-on-year in July to 25.518 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down just -0.4% to 182.654. 4x4 sales gain 1% to 12.548 and a whopping 49.2% share vs. 48.7% year-to-date and are up 3.3% YTD…
The Renault Logan is the best-selling vehicle in Colombia in July. Outstanding month for new vehicle sales in Colombia, up 18.3% year-on-year in July to 22.904 units, its largest uptick so far this year, which leads to a YTD volume up 4.7% to 139.114. In the brands ranking, Renault (+60.2%)…
The Isuzu D-Max breaks into the South African Top 5 for the first time. New vehicle sales in South Africa continue to slide at -3.8% year-on-year in July to 46.077, leading to a year-to-date tally down -3.7% to 303.701. Toyota (-21%) is hit hard but conformably remains atop the manufacturers…
The VW T-Cross breaks into the Austrian Top 5 for the first time. Picture meinbezirk.at The Austrian new car market is almost immobile in July at -0.06% year-on-year to 31.454 registrations, an outstanding performance in itself even July 2018 volume were boosted up 13.5% by pre-WLTP sales. The YTD volume…