March 2020: New passenger vehicle registrations in the European Union, UK, and EFTA halved while car sales in the first quarter were down 26%. During the first quarter of 2020, new car sales in the European Union (EU), EFTA, and the UK were down by more than a quarter. In March 2020, usually one of … Read more
January to March 2020: Toyota gained market share in a weak market to remain Japan’s largest carmaker. The Corolla was the top-selling model car and the Honda N-Box the favorite minicar (kei). During the first quarter of 2020, Toyota remained by far the largest vehicle manufacturer in Japan while Suzuki narrowly took second place ahead … Read more
Volkswagen, Renault, and Tesla were the top-selling electric car brands in Germany during the first quarter of 2020. The eGolf the favorite BEV. First-quarter 2020: Volkswagen was the best-selling battery-electric vehicle (BEV) brand in Germany, followed by Renault and Tesla. It was a similar order for the top-selling electric car models in Germany thus far … Read more
Volkswagen was the best-selling car brand in Britain during the first quarter of 2020. The Ford Fiesta remained the top-selling car model. January – March 2020: new passenger vehicle registrations in the UK were down nearly a third in the wake of the Coronavirus crisis. Volkswagen outsold Ford for the first time to become the … Read more
Q1/2020: Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi were the best-selling car brands in Germany and the VW Golf the top-selling model. January to March 2020: New passenger vehicle registrations in Germany contracted by 20% largely due to the Coronavirus closing both salesrooms and registration offices. Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz remained the top-selling car brands in Germany during the … Read more
Peugeot replaced Renault as the best-selling car brand in France in the first quarter of 2020 while the Peugeot 208 was the top-selling model ahead of the Renault Clio. From the beginning of 2020, the French new car market was weaker but it completely collapsed during March 2020. The PSA Group remained by far the … Read more
In February 2020, new passenger vehicle registrations in Europe contracted by 7%. The Renault Clio outsold the Volkswagen Golf. New car sales in Europe (European Union, EFTA, and the UK) were 7% lower in February 2020 than a year ago and follows on January when the market contracted by an even stronger 7.6%. Car sales … Read more
In 2019, Lamborghini sales worldwide increased by 43% with the Urus super SUV by far the most popular Lamborghini model. In full-year 2019, Lamborghini achieved record sales by delivering 8,2015 cars to customers worldwide. The most-popular Lamborghini model was the Urus super SUV that contributed 60% of total cars sold by Lamborghini in 2019. Lamborghini … Read more
February 2020: car sales worldwide were lower with the market in China collapsing, sales weak in Europa, Japan, and India, and only the US and Brazilian markets stronger. January & February 2020: new passenger vehicle registrations were lower worldwide with only the US market growing to become again the largest single-country new car market in … Read more
January 2020: New passenger vehicle registrations in Europe contracted by 8% while electrified car sales surged in many markets. The European new car market was smaller in January 2020 with sales significantly down on both January 2019 and December 2019. The contraction was largely predicted due to a change in emission regulations that brought many … Read more