New car registrations in Europe drop 1.7% in 2011
In December 2011, new passenger car registrations in the EU declined by 6.4% to 953,108 units.
Details of these statistics can be seen at Ti Dashboard – Car Registrations: Europe. Germany was the only market to see growth in registrations of 6.1%. Spain and the UK saw registrations fall 3.6% and 3.7% respectively, while Italy and France saw significant declines of 15.3% and 17.7% respectively.
For the full year 2011, the number of new registrations totalled 13,111,209 units, a 1.7% decline compared with 2010. This marks the fourth consecutive year of decline (2007 was the last year to see growth, when new passenger car registrations rose 1%).
On a national basis, Germany was the only major market to see growth in 2011, with registrations up 8.8%. France, the UK, Italy and Spain all saw new passenger car registrations decline 2.1%, 4.4%, 10.9% and 17.7% respectively.
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