As we reported last month, the Toyota Prius – the new, 3rd GEN car – took the top sales spot in Japan in its first full month on sale, knocking April’s big seller – the Honda Insight Hybrid – in to second place. For the fist time the top two spots in Japan were taken […]
Hybrid cars driving sales in Japan
We’ve reported before that Hybrid car sales in Japan are going through the roof, with first the Honda Insight being the best selling car in Japan, soon to be overtaken by the new Toyota Prius. In fact, the Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight are the two best-selling cars in Japan bar none. And what […]
Honda Insight top selling car in Japan
You’ve got to hand it to Honda. They have worked really hard to make the Honda Insight an appealing car, both on specification and, more importantly, on cost. And it seems to be working for them. As we reported at the end of last month, the Honda Insight was the best selling Hybrid in the […]
Ford Fiesta – 250,000 sales in the first 9 months
The Fiesta has always been a good seller for Ford. But the new Ford Fiesta has broken all previous records for the Blue Oval despite (or maybe because of) the current recession. Ford has announced that in the first nine months of production, the new Ford Fiesta has shifted a very impressive 250,000 units, more […]
New Boxster and Caymen swell Porsche’s order book
Porsche has reported sales in Germany up 14.5% in the first 3 months of 2009, buoyed by sales of the new Cayman and Boxster
Bugatti Atalante sells for £3 Million
Back at the turn of the new year, we brought you news of a Bugatti Type 57S Atalante that had been found in a barn in the North East, after the death of its owner, a Dr Harold Carr. We speculated on its price, for which estimates varied hugely, with some reports suggesting that a […]
Porsche reports big drop in sales
Well, it’s not exactly a surprise, given the doom and gloom in the industry at the moment, but Porsche has just reported a 27% drop in sales, down to 34,000 units, over the last six months. As you would expect, some models fared worse than others. The recently updated Porsche 911, which has had mid-cycle […]
Now even Audi slows production
We’ve written endlessly about the slow down in car production worldwide. All the top end manufacturers have made savage cuts in jobs and production. But there seemed to be one company bucking the trend – Audi. But even the mighty Audi is now starting to feel the pinch. Audi has announced that it is to […]
Rolls Royce has record 2008
We reported a while back about Rolls Royce prospering despite the credit crunch, and figures revealed today show that they continue to prosper despite the doom and gloom. When we last wrote about this back in November, we reported that Rolls Royce’s year end showed an increase of 38% year on year, with a total […]
Audi sells over 1,000,000 cars in 2008
Audi has really made an impression on the car market in the last decade. From the old Auto Union days (which was created by amalgamating the car makers Horch, Audi, DKW and Wanderer), it is now part of the German luxury car triumvirate – BMW, Mercedes and Audi – and considered to be the equal […]