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Over the last few weeks we have traveled to Haiti, Mongolia, Israel and Botswana. Given it is the middle of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, I thought this weekend we could stop in sunny Malta…
If you’re more interested in Maltese terriers, then you are on the wrong website… OK fine, this might be yet another country dominated by Toyota so if you have had enough that’s OK, I thought that could happen and have prepared info about car sales in 155 additional countries that you can explore in my blog, so click away!
No official sales figures for Malta but you know me, that’s not enough to discourage me…
Thanks to recent YouTube videos of the streets of this island-country, I have managed to establish a rough picture of the car market in Malta…
First a bit of geography just in case, I have to admit before I launched into a thorough exploration of the best-selling cars around the globe I wasn’t quite sure where Malta was. Thank God for Wikipedia! So this country is composed of two islands and located half-way between Tunisia and Italy in the Mediterranean sea.
Right. This actually helps understand the composition of the Maltese car market, influenced by both Italy and Greece, not that far off either. Looking at as many videos as I could on YouTube I came to the conclusion that the Toyota Yaris should top car sales in the country. The two previous generations of the model are very common in the streets so the new generation will in all likeliness be a hit too. Plus I can imagine it’s a rental car favorite which can only help its sales.
The other popular cars in Malta all belong to the small car category: pretenders to a spot on the Maltese podium are the Hyundai Getz…
Fiat Grande Punto…
and Peugeot 207.
The previous generations of VW Polo…
…and Ford Fiesta also seem to have been pretty successful in the island so we can assume that the new generations should receive the same treatment.
Let’s also note the dynamism of Nissan with the Qashqai and the Juke, apparently very well received in Malta…
and of Suzuki with the Alto likely to be well placed too.
This very rough speculation is based on the observation of recent YouTube videos of the streets of the country. If you have any more info about Malta’s best-selling cars, please make sure to get in touch!
