World car

The Kia EV5 ranks #8 for its 5th month in market. The Dutch new car market stabilises after two horrendous months, with March up 1.1% year-on-year to 31,467 units. Logically, the year-to-date tally remains in frank negative at -10.8% to 81,480. Over Q1, HEVs account for 58.4% of the market at 47,603 sales, BEVs are at 30.5% and 24,869 units, petrol at 9.6% and 7,832 and diesel at 1.2% and 1,005. Kia (-0.5%) remains the dominant force here with 9% share, followed by BMW (-5.1%) up four spots on February to #2, Toyota (-12%) down one to #3 and Volkswagen (stable) at #4. Renault (-10.5%) rounds out the Top 5 like last month. Tesla (+18.4%) is back up to #6 and signs the biggest gain in the Top 12. Below, notice Leapmotor (+2850%), BYD (+187.8%), and Mazda (+59.6%) all in outstanding shape. Over in the models charts, Tesla manages a 1-2 for the first time since December 2024 with the Model Y (+33.2%) in first place and the Model 3 (+3.3%) at #2. The Model Y now ranks #2 year-to-date vs. ...

Toyota sales are up 67.5% year-on-year in February. It’s an outstanding month for new car sales in Spain with March volumes up 11.7% year-on-year to 130,340 units. This is a particularly good result given March 2025 was already up 23.2% on the year prior. In fact, this is the first time the monthly volume surpasses 130,000 units since June 2019 (134,341) . March 2026 is up 6.2% on pre-pandemic March 2019. The year-to-date tally is now up 7.6% to 300,529. Rechargeable cars (BEV+PHEV) are up a whopping 62% to 26,725 units and 20.5% share and up 58.4% YTD to 62,966 and 21% share vs. 14% over the same period in 2025. All channels are in positive, with private sales up 17.5% to 51,774, company sales up 13.5% to 37,647 and short term rentals up 3.6% to 40,919. Year-to-date, private sales are up 5.6% to 129,540, company sales up 4.7% to 95,086 and rental sales up 15.1% to 75,903. The best performing regions are Baleares (+44.4%), Extremadura (+42.4%), Navarra (+38.7%), La rioja (+36.1%) and...