Nevertheless, after the first nine months of the year, registrations remain an average of 9.9 percent below the previous year’s value, with Italy even recorded a minus of more than 16 percent. Automakers also continue to struggle with problems chip shortage until the energy crisis. While supply chain problems are easing, high inflation and the deteriorating economic outlook now threaten to jeopardize the recovery.
The increase in September is also mainly due to the weak previous year’s figure, according to the car manufacturer lobby association. A year ago, the lack of electronic chips had significantly reduced production. Including the European Free Trade Area (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland) and Great Britain Passenger car sales grew to 1.05 million vehicles, up 7.9 percent year-on-year, according to Acea statistics
Mercedes-Benz increases sales by more than 30 percent
In the four most important markets Germany (+14.1 percent), Spain (+12.7 percent), France (+5.5 percent) and Italy (+5.4 percent) saw growth in September.
The brands of the Volkswagengroup with a good quarter more registered cars, including the sports car manufacturer Porsche with an equally strong increase. From the carmaker Mercedes Benz even 30.5 percent more cars were registered during the bmw-Group only increased by 4.4 percent – but was still ahead of the rival from Stuttgart in terms of quantities. the Opel-Mother Stellantis recorded only a mini plus that Renault-Registrations even fell slightly.