For the first time in 13 months, car manufacturers in the EU delivered more new cars in August than a year ago. Around 650,000 new cars were registered last month, an increase of 4.4 percent, the European manufacturers’ association ACEA announced on Friday. As recently as July, the number of passenger cars had fallen again (minus 10.4 percent) despite the already low comparative period.
In Italy and Spain the recovery was therefore stronger than in Germany and France. However, the volume is still well below the level before the 2019 pandemic. From January to August, the drop was almost 12 percent with almost six million new registrations because of the chronic shortage of semiconductors car production is slowing down.
Of the German brands, the European market leader suffered Volkswagen the most, down 19 percent year-to-date. The market share fell by one percentage point to 10.9 percent. Handed over by the three premium manufacturers bmw 404,000 cars to customers from January to August, down almost 13 percent (market share 6.7 percent).
at Mercedes Benz there was a minus of 6.8 percent, so that the market share improved slightly to 5.8 percent. The Volkswagen subsidiary Audi sold 10 percent fewer new cars and stabilized its share at 5 percent.