VW Golf GTE Plug-in * UPDATED - See the Top 100 best-selling models and Top 32 All-brands * Grey sky for the Norwegian new car market: down another 5% year-on-year in February to 10,685 registrations, which brings the year-to-date total to 21,208 units, down 6% on 2014. Volkswagen dominates the brands ranking…
Runaway success: the Honda HR-V in Thailand. * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 9 brands by clicking on the title * Sadly, the Thai new car market continues to sink deeper into recession with another harsh 13% year-on-year drop in January to just 59,721 registrations. Toyota remains…
The Dodge Vision (a rebadged Fiat Gran Siena) lands at #174 in Mexico. * See the Top 258 All-models and Top 39 All-brands rankings here * I can now share with you All-models and All-brands rankings for Mexico for the Full Year 2014. Beyond the familiar Top 10 models there is…
Nissan X-Trail, Mazda CX-5, Toyota Harrier - SUV sales surged 62% in 2014 in Japan. * See the Top 189 All-local models by clicking on the title * Today at BSCB we can share with you an exclusive All-local models ranking by variant (Corolla Axio and Corolla Fielder separated for…
Nissan X-Trail is up 589% in Turkey in 2014 thanks to the new model. * See the Turkey Full Year 2014 Top 263 All-models ranking here * I can now share with you All-models and all-LCV rankings for Turkey, along with the All-brands ranking published some time ago. We learn…
Chevrolet Matiz * See the Top 30 best-selling brands and Top 15 models by clicking on the title * After missing out on an all-time record year by a mere 4.310 units last year, the Mexican new car market is on track to smash all its records in 2015, with…
The Holden Commodore is up to #2 in New Zealand in January. * See the Top 60 All-brands and Top 25 models by clicking on the title * The Kiwi new car market starts the new year the way it ended the past one: at record levels. January sales are…
The Mazda3 starts the 2015 race in front. * UPDATED - Discover the Top 20 best-selling models and Top 47 All brands * New car sales in Australia are steady in January at -0.2% to 82,116 registrations, however this masks greatly varying behaviours by segments: passenger cars are down 4% while SUVs…
The i20 enables Hyundai to double its sales year-on-year in France. * See the Top 20 best-selling brands and Top 100 models by clicking on the title * The French new car market halts a streak of three consecutive months of year-on-year declines in January by improving 6% on a…
The third generation Mini hits a best-ever #26 in France this month. * UPDATED - see the Top 350 All-models and Top 50 All-brands by clicking on the title * December is here to remind the French market it is well and truly stuck in hell: down a horrendous 7% to…
The Daihatsu Tanto is the best-selling vehicle in Japan in 2014. * See the Top 60 brands, Top 30 models, Top 40 Kei cars and Top 20 imports by clicking on the title * At the start of 2014, JAMA's forecast for the Japanese new car market was a 10%…
The VW Vento jumps to #4 in Mexico this year. * UPDATED - See the Top 258 All-models and Top 39 All-brands by clicking on the title * * Check out 10 years worth of Mexican archived data here * Exactly as I predicted last month, the Mexican new car…
Nissan X-Trail * See the Top 292 All-models ranking by clicking on the title * As is the tradition on BSCB I can now share with you our quarterly All-models ranking for Australia. If the Top 4 is unchanged on last quarter and the Full Year 2014 ranking (Corolla-3-Hilux-i30), the…
Honda HR-V * See the Top 50 best-selling models and Top 35 brands by clicking on the title * New car sales in Thailand just can't step out of a nightmarish year so far in 2014: down another 21% year-on-year in November to just 73,068 registrations after drops of 20%…
The JAC Refine S3 outsells all foreign SUVs in China this month. * See the Top 343 All-local models ranking by clicking on the title * New light vehicles sales are up 5% year-on-year in China to 1.775.300 units in November, and once again the entire market is single-handedly lifted by…