Greece 1992 / 2012 Comparison

We all know about the economic woes of Europe, especially countries such as Greece. So how do car sales compare with today and twenty years ago? Let's find out.



Below is a chart of sales for 1992 and 2012 (the 2012 figures are only nine months). Despite that, the trend is clear. There is the rank brands have in the Greek market, brand and sales, finally market share:

MG Returns To New Zealand

MG Rover cars sold well in NZ in the late 90's. Although data from those misty times is hard to find, in 1999 I believe they were the 13th best selling brand and the biggest of any Euro marque. However, once BMW stopped being the importer, things were not the same on the sales front thereafter.

Fast forward to 2012/13 and the MG brand is about to make a comeback, initially in the form of the

Ford To Close Factories, Peugeot Non?

It seems that Ford is to close it's Belgian Ford plant in Genk, which makes Mondeos and S-Max models. This will mean the loss of over 4,000 jobs. Production of the new Mondeo and S-Max will got to Valencia, Spain. Also on the chopping block is the Southampton factory, which makes the Transit van and 500 jobs will go. Most Transit vans are made in Turkey anyway, so this will be seamless. (Since

The Rover 400 (45) 2000-2004

This is one of three articles about the Rover 400/45 model.





This car needed replacing but got a facelift instead. Not enough sales for the 400 model to go it alone, yet then owners BMW tried just that and failed. They sold up and took the replacement model designs back to Munich to rot in an office draw. Who thinks capitalism has a caring side? Anyway, it soldiered on but was losing ground

The Rover 400 1995-99

                 This is one of three articles about the Rover 400/45 model.





The 400 HHR model was a new model based on the Honda Domani, which was apparently sold in Europe as part of the Honda Civic range as a hatchback and estate (wagon). The new 400 model was to be separate from the 200 range. Rover wanted to have more input into the car as it had with the R8, but Honda had different

The Rover 400 1990-94

This is one of three articles about the Rover 400/45 model.










The
first Rover 400 (R8) came out in 1990 and was a 4 door saloon (sedan)
version of the 200 model. Later a 400 Tourer Estate (wagon) model
came along also. The car was a joint venture between Rover and Honda,
the latter got the Concerto Model from the collaboration. Being able
to produce both cars off the same assembly line

Land Rover Worldwide Sales By Region: 2011

Land Rover has done well of late and 2012 will be a record year with the new Evoque in full swing. The figures below show the move away from traditional markets. Russia is part of the others total in 2011, but was probably included in Europe for the 2003 figure:

Land Rover sales 2003:





Total
165163




Europe
99000
59.9
%


Nth Am
41000
24.8
%

Jaguar Worldwide Sales By Region: 2011

In which regions and quantities does the Jaguar marques sell in? Only one way to find out, come to this post in this blog. Ford used to release this data years ago and now TATA do also. Starting with Ford's data of 2002, which had different ways of dividing sales by region than TATA do naturally enough. They also rounded figures also.







Total
130000




Europe
53300

Land Rover Worldwide Sales By Model: 2011

Land Rover sales for 2011 by model is data hard to find, in fact as with the Jaguar equivalent, perhaps only to be found here. It is thanks to the more open TATA policy. So how did LR models sell?






RR Sport
54,670
24.4%


Freeland
51,954
23.2%


Discover
44,874
20.1%


R Rover
29,626
13.2%


Evoque
22,710
10.2%


Defender

Jaguar Worldwide Sales By Model: 2011

Jaguar have always viewed sales data as private information not for public consumption. Things have improved although they still do silly things like get all coy about sales in India. Maybe one day. One thing owner TATA has been is more open. Now probably for the first time, Jaguar worldwide sales by model is available to the public thanks to a more open policy by TATA and some super sleuth work