The VW Santana was the best-selling vehicle in China up until 1999. Check out Full China Historical Data from 1980 to 2022 here. BSCB has now been updated with complete brands and models rankings from 1991 to 2006. That's 16 new articles! The data includes Passenger Cars, Commercial Vehicles and…
Wuling Hongguang V in Dali old town After Shanghai, Manzhouli in Inner Mongolia and Kunming in Yunnan, we continue on our exploration of Chinese regions following the Shanghai Auto Show. This time we travel 350km west from Kunming to reach the small town of Dali on the shores of the Erhai…
Maxxus G10. There. Now you know a new Chinese brand. I am getting more and more impressed as we go up my list of the most impressive Chinese carmakers at the Beijing Auto Show, now from #15 to #11. This is Part 5 of my Beijing Auto Show coverage, check out…
VW Touran * See the Full Photo Report by clicking on the title! * This is Part 25 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Report here. After taking you through Beijing streets, on a visit of the Chaoyang car market in Beijing-East, and through a…
The Fiat 126p was the first passenger car to be imported into China in 1979. The direct links to all Historical articles are below. Chinese historical information all the way up to the start of the eighties is now available on Best Selling Cars Blog. This 40 year-period in China is…
A record 21,222 Haval H6 found a buyer in China this month. * See the Top 314 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Euphoric days continue in China: the total market is up a whopping 20% year-on-year in October to 1.93 million units, the best monthly result since…
Baojun had its own dedicated (albeit small) dealership... * See the Full Photo Report by clicking on the title! * This is Part 22 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Report here. After an introduction to the Beijing car landscape, I was lucky…
The Buick GL8 is everywhere in Beijing! * See the Full Photo Report by clicking on the title! * This is Part 21 of my Trans-Siberian Photo Report. You can see all other Parts of this long-term Report here. When I said it was a big shock to go from one…
VW Lavida * See the Top 319 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * After exploring the June sales charts in detail and looking at the all-new entrants in the ranking, I give you the 6 months summary for China. If the US market (our first 6 months update)…
Great Wall Haval H6 * See the Top 308 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * After going through April sales in detail for China, as is the tradition on BSCB we are now exploring the year-to-date ranking to try and extract longer-term trends. The two best-sellers continue to…
VW Lavida * NOW UPDATED with the Top 295 All-models and Top 65 All-brands! Click on title to see * In March the VW Lavida manages to top the Chinese models ranking for the third consecutive month thanks to 38,334 sales, up a massive 89% year-on-year, with the Ford Focus…
2013 Ford Fiesta * See the Top 50 best-selling Small cars by clicking on the title! * The original World Full Year 2012 Top 500 is here. We continue on our exploration by segment of the best-selling cars worldwide in 2012, now onto Small cars. The top of the ranking…
VW Lavida * See the Top 296 All-models ranking by clicking on the title! * Now that we have explored the best-sellers in China in February in detail, it's time to bring back the monthly year-to-date summaries. Over the first two months of 2013 the Chinese new car market is…
Ford Focus * See the Top 304 all-models ranking by clicking on the title! * The Chinese new Passenger Vehicle market slows down its growth in 2012 to a still very respectable 6% year-on-year to 14,682,215 units. The models pole position changes hands for the third consecutive year: after the…
The BYD F3 could reclaim the title of Chinese best-selling passenger car in the world next month. * See the Top 180 best-selling models by clicking on the title! Many thanks to Austin * As is now the tradition on BSCB, after exploring the Top 150 most popular cars around the…