The Toyota Prius remained the most popular car in Japan during the first half of 2012. The Honda Fit and Toyota Aqua were also top sellers. During the first six months of 2012, the Toyota Prius continued to be the best-selling car model in Japan. The Honda Fit was again the second most popular car … Read more
The Volkswagen Golf easily remained the top-selling car model in Germany for the first half of 2012. The Passat and Polo gave VW a clean sweep of the three best-selling car models. The VW Golf (including Jetta) kept its traditional position as Germany’s favorite car model for the first half of 2012. The Golf was … Read more
Toyota remained the strongest car manufacturer in Japan during the first six months of 2012. Honda was the second best-selling brand with Volkswagen Japan’s favorite imported car. During the first half of 2012, the Japanese vehicle market continues to show strong growth and recovery from the difficult 2011 when the tsunami in Japan and flooding … Read more
Volkswagen continues to dominate the car market in Switzerland during the first half of 2012. VW-owned Audi and Skoda were also top-selling car brands. 2012 started off well for Swiss car importers with a further 12% expansion in the number of new passenger vehicle registrations during the first six months of the year. Volkswagen easily … Read more
Volkswagen, followed by BMW-Mini and Mercedes, was the most popular car brands in Germany during the first six months of 2012. The German car market expanded slightly during the first half of 2012 with Volkswagen easily remaining the best-selling car brand. BMW-Mini, Mercedes, and Audi maintained their positions while Opel pushed Ford down to six … Read more
Renault, Peugeot and Citroen remained the best-selling motorcar brands in France during the first six months of 2012. Volkswagen remained the top-selling foreign auto marque. The French car market remained weak during the first half of 2012. January to June 2012 saw a 14.4% decline in new passenger vehicle registrations in France to 1,048,298 cars. … Read more
Renault, Peugeot, Citroen, and Volkswagen, were the best-selling car brands in France at the start of 2012. The Renault Clio remains France’s favorite car. 2012 started badly for the French motoring industry with sales down by over a fifth during the first three months of the year. French manufacturers Renault, Peugeot, and Citroen remained the … Read more
The VW Group remained the best-selling car manufacturer in Western Europe and Volkswagen the top-selling auto brand in the first quarter of 2012. The first quarter of 2012 saw the VW Group and Volkswagen brand increase their dominance of the European car market. Other major automobile manufacturing groups including Peugeot, Ford, Renault, GM, and Fiat … Read more
New passenger vehicle registrations in Western Europe continued to decline during the first quarter of 2012. Germany, Britain, France and Italy were the biggest auto markets in Europe. 2012 began with weak car sales in Western Europe with new passenger vehicle registrations down by 7.3% for the first quarter of 2012. Germany and the United … Read more
The Japanese car market grew by half with Toyota and Honda sales up two-thirds during the first quarter of 2012. The Toyota Prius and Honda Fit remained the best selling models. 2012 started very well for the Japanese car market. During the first three months of the year, Japanese new vehicle registrations increased by nearly … Read more