Henk Bekker 
In 2015, the Renault Clio and Peugeot 208 were again the most-popular car models of the French with the VW Polo the top-selling foreign car model in France. The composition of the models on the list of the 20 best-selling car models in France in 2015 hardly changed from a year ago with the Renault … Read more
In 2015, the PSA Group (Peugeot Citroen) was the best-selling car manufacturer in France, Renault the most-popular brand and VW the top imported marque. The French car market expanded by 6.8% to 1,9 million new passenger vehicle registrations – the best performance since 2011. Almost all carmakers and brands in France had an increase in … Read more
November 2015: The Chinese car market expanded by a quarter while sales were also up in Europe, India and the USA. Russia, Brazil and Japan contracted.
Year-to-date 2015, new passenger vehicle registrations increased the most in Europe (8.6%) but increases have also been strong in China, India and the USA. New car sales in Japan contracted during the first eleven months of 2015 by 10% but were down by a quarter in Brazil and just over a third in Russia.
October 2015: New vehicle registrations increased strongly in India, China and the USA while the slump in car sales continued in Brazil and Russia. New passenger vehicle registrations continued to increase in Europe but the UK had its first negative month in two and a half years. The Japanese car market remained weak but the … Read more
September 2015: Electric car sales continue to grow in Germany while new registrations of plug-in hybrid vehicles are up 150% this year. However, electric cars took only 0.3% of the total German new car market while 1.1% of new passenger vehicle registrations were for hybrid cars. New Electric and Hybrid-Vehicle Registrations in Germany in 2015 … Read more
September 2015: Car sales increased strongly in the USA, Europe, China and India but were lower in Japan and down by a third in Russia and Brazil. Although light vehicle sales in the USA grew by 16% – the strongest September in 15 years – China again became the world’s largest single-country car market for … Read more
In September 2015, car sales in Europe increased for the 25th successive month. New passenger vehicle registrations increased by 8.8% to 10,776,66 cars in the EU and EFTA during the first three quarters of 2015. During the first nine months of 2015, only four European countries registered weaker car sales while the largest European markets … Read more
Volkswagen was Europe’s largest car manufacturer in the first three quarters of 2015 with VW the top-selling brand and the Golf Europe’s favorite model. Only four car brands sold fewer cars in Europe thus far this year compared to a year ago. Jeep and Smart were the fastest-growing car brands in Europe thus far in … Read more
Volkswagens and Land Rover Range Rover were the cars most often stolen in Germany in 2014. German car thieves’ preferred brands were VW, Audi or BMW. In Germany, 17,895 insured cars were stolen in 2014 – 4.8% less than the year before. In absolute numbers, the most-often stolen marques were VW, Audi and BMW but … Read more
September 2015: Record new car sales for Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and BMW worldwide and in China but Audi struggled in China and Volkswagen sales were down. German luxury and premium brand car manufacturers continued to sell well with record numbers of deliveries for the first three quarters of a year for Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Sales … Read more