The new generation Santa Fe pushes the nameplate up to its highest ranking in 4.5 years. The South Korean new car market edges down -1.3% year-on-year in January to 115,877. This is solely the fault of foreign manufacturers diving -19.4% to 13,083 whereas domestic brands are up 1.6% to 102,794.…
The Q7 pushes Audi sales up in November. It's a second consecutive month of year-on-year growth for the Chinese imports market in November at +18.3% to 65,998. The year-to-date tally however remains in negative at -4.5% to 660,983. Lexus (+43.4%) continues to compensate for low year-ago levels and is once…
The Kia Sorento is the best-selling vehicle in South Korea for the third month ever. The South Korean new light vehicle market advances 3.4% year-on-year in November to 160,624 units, including 132,231 (+4.1%) for domestic carmakers and 28,303 (+0.3%) for foreigners. The year-to-date volume is up 5.7% to 1,596,840 including…
The Hyundai Santa Fe signs its first podium finish in over 3 years. New light vehicle sales in South Korea drop -4.8% year-on-year in October to 138,341 units. This includes 117,012 local manufacturers (-2.5%) and 21,329 foreigners (-15.9%). Year-to-date, the market remains in positive at +5.1% to 1,424,325 including 1,205,239…
First Top 10 finish in Moldova for the BMW X7. According to data shared by our Central European market data partner CE Auto, new car sales in Moldova gain a whopping 17.5% year-on-year in February to 551 units. This leads to a year-to-date volume up 18.1% to 1,037 sales. The Kia Sportage (+243.8%)…
Jeep Wrangler sales double year-on-year in a market down -31.8% 54,080 new car imports hit Chinese roads in May, that's a hefty -31.8% year-on-year decline bringing the year-to-date volume down -27.6% to 293,438. Adding to the current lockdowns and parts shortage is the progressive transition of some strong selling import…
The Kia Bongo is up to a record 2nd place in February, with the EV variant at 46.4% of sales. The South Korean new light vehicle market is down -0.7% year-on-year in February to 122,728 units including 103,274 domestic models (+1.9%) and 19,454 foreigners (-12.7%). The year-to-date total stands at…
The Genesis G80 is the best-selling vehicle in South Korea in January. New car sales in South Korea drop -20.3% year-on-year in January to 111,261 units, including 93,900 domestic vehicles (-19.9%) and 17,361 foreigners (-22.2%). For the second time in history after last July, Kia (-10.7%) outpaces sister brand Hyundai…
The Toyota RAV4 breaks a six year-old monthly volume record in July. After surging +14.5% in May, and +11.6% in June, Chinese wholesales accelerate their post-Covid rebound in July at a superb +16.4% year-on-year to 2.112.000 units according to data by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). As it was…
Mercedes is the only gainer in the Top 13 and ranks 6th in April. With COVID-19 cases soaring from just 669 as of March 31 to 10.861 as of April 30 and 19.706 as of May 20, Ukraine was under strict lockdown measures for all of April, with the quarantine…
Mercedes places 3 nameplates in the February Top 9, including the GLC. Retail sales of our selection of vehicles in China in February post a very similar evolution compared with wholesales figures: -79.2% to 204.089 units which brings the year-to-date volume down -46.2% to 1.909.262. For the past two years, BSCB…
Mercedes now produces the AMG A-Class in China. Since February 2018, BSCB has been the only non-Chinese media to analyse complete retail sales data - or registrations - for China, as an additional monthly update to our years-long coverage of wholesales data, or factory shipments. The latter can be inflated by…
BMW scores its first #1 imported brand ranking in exactly a year in China. Sales of imported cars in China freefall -24.8% year-on-year in January to 81.906 units. BMW (-18.6%) ends 11 consecutive months of Lexus domination to reclaim the brands top spot like in January 2019. Lexus (+3.2%) is…
Roewe RX5 wholesales are lifted up 21.6% by the new MAX model. Chinese wholesales (ex-factory shipments) drop for the 19th consecutve month in January at -18.4% to 1.932.700 units but unlike most articles you may have read on the subject, this is not (yet) because of the COVID-19 virus. The…
The Lexus ES is the best-selling import in China in 2019. Discover 30 years worth of Chinese Historical Data here. For the third consecutive year we can share worth you complete China imports data for the Full Year, this is exclusive to BSCB as no media outside of China is…