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It was only two days ago that GoodCarBadCar showcased the Hyundai Elantra Coupe in an image gallery ripe for perusing, although the Elantra Coupe's party was rained on by the presence of Honda's Civic Coupe and the Kia Forte Koup. Now, all attempts to shower praise upon the hatchback Hyundai Elantra GT, another debutante from the Chicago Auto Show, has been tainted by the allure of an iconic German and a fun-to-drive Japanese hatch. Replacing the Elantra Touring in Hyundai's lineup will... Read Full Story

After ending 2011 as the best-selling car in Canada for the fourteenth consecutive year, the Honda Civic began 2012 with a January victory. And it wasn't a narrow victory, no, not at all. The Civic was more than twice as popular as the next-best-selling car. You get that? The leader, Honda's Civic sedan and coupe, sold more often than the second and third-ranked cars combined . In January 2011 , the best-selling car in Canada was the Hyundai Elantra. It was hard to maintain that momentum... Read Full Story

Nine different brands contributed utility vehicles to January 2012's list of the top 10 best-selling SUVs in Canada. The brand with two members just so happened to gain the top spot in January's best-selling group. The Ford Escape was indeed the top seller, 258 units ahead of the Dodge Journey. With 14,048 sales between the ten of them, these best-selling crossovers and SUVs accounted for 14% of Canada's overall new vehicle market in January 2012 . The Escape is obviously a dominant... Read Full Story

Here's the good news for the Toyota Tacoma: it's more popular in Canada than any other non-full-size truck that's going to be on the market next year. Moreover, January 2012 sales were 23% better than January 2011 sales .  The bad news? A still-dying Ford Ranger was a more frequent acquisition in Canada last month than the Toyota Tacoma, and by quite a measure. Tacoma sales needed to be jacked up to the tune of about 57%, not 23%, if it was to become Canada's fifth-best-selling truck in... Read Full Story

As more and more information is added to a typical GoodCarBadCar.net post (six charts and three tables in this instance), there's less and less need for words. So, just pay attention to a few simple facts before you check out the  January 2012 details on America's loosely-defined small, midsize, and large SUV segments. January 2012 U.S. Small SUV Chart Click Any Chart For A Larger View No small utility vehicle reported a more significant drop than the Honda Element last month. But... Read Full Story

Suggesting there are easily-defined trends developing just one month into the new year isn't unlike believing you can decipher what newborn babies are thinking. It's just too early to tell. However, we do know certain things. Not about what the babies think, just about the whole mainstream car sales thing.  January 2012 Small Car Market Share Click Any Chart For A Larger View After the jump you can learn a few of these things based on midsize and large car sales results from... Read Full Story

There was little doubt that official images of the 2013 Hyundai Elantra Coupe were going to be tasty. The Elantra sedan has always looked like the kind of good-looking sedan that was originally designed to be a two-door con  trunk. Now the Hyundai compact has simply ended up at the point where it always needed to be. From a Canadian Sales Stats perspective, the things Hyundai will be able to achieve with a three-bodystyle Elantra range are great and noble. Will the Honda Civic , 10K units... Read Full Story

The Suzuki Swift Sport is the car Suzuki should be selling in North America There are hundreds of reasons vehicles end up appearing on GoodCarBadCar's worst-selling vehicles list. The all-electric Mitsubishi i is niche to the nth degree and, besides, it's hardly spent any time on the marketplace. The Lexus GS is at the end of its lifecycle. The Chevrolet Caprice is a vehicle meant for police personnel only. The $34,350 Volkswagen Eos is a premium-priced convertible, barely mainstream... Read Full Story

Above: The 3-door Audi A3,  a car not sold in North America The UK new car market enjoyed a very slight burst of optimism in January 2012 as volume increased 0.03% compared with January 2012. In terms of Britain's favourite vehicles, however, many were significantly less popular this year than last.  The United Kingdom's best-selling car in January was the Ford Fiesta, and it certainly was not less popular this year than last. This strange downward fluctuations aren't such a... Read Full Story

In January 2012, Ford was once again the United Kingdom's leading automaker as Blue Oval sales rose 2% to 20,061, or 15.6% of all new vehicles sold in the UK. Volkswagen and its numerous brands led the way in terms of market share, reaching 20.8%, up from 19.3% in December. General Motors, by way of its core brand Vauxhall and its increasingly popular Chevrolet brand, sold 14,174 vehicles. That equates to 11% of the market, down from 13.8% in December. Ford market share, by the way, rose from... Read Full Story