EU car sales dropped sharply in June

EU car sales dropped sharply in June
15 July 2011

Brussels – new data from ACEA, the European federation of vehicle manufacturers show that sales in June dropped compared to the previous month.

In June, all important markets faced a downturn, leading to an overall 8.1% fall across the EU*. Contractions ranged from -0.3% in Germany to -1.7% in Italy, -6.2% in the UK, -12.6% in France and -31.4% in Spain.

Over the first six months of 2011, a total of 7,120,499 new cars was registered, or 2.1% less than in the first half of last year. In June, new passenger car registrations dropped by 8.1% in the EU, amounting to 1,233,298 units. The month counted on average 0.7 working day less across the region.