September 2, 2019
Category: Featured press, Faconauto News, Press releases
Enrollment of passenger cars and SUVs fell 30.8% in August and accumulate a decrease of 9.2% in the first eight months of the year.
The registrations of light commercial vehicles stagnated in August, while in the whole of the year they continue to grow, 2.4%.
Industrial vehicles, buses, coaches and minibuses close the month of August with a sharp drop in sales of 25.9%.
The registrations of passenger cars and SUVs in August decreased by 30.8% compared to the same period last year, to 74,490 units, with one working day less than in August 2018. This fall responds, above all, to the effect Comparative with respect to the volumes reached in August 2018, an abnormal month in terms of vehicle deliveries. In August 2018, 107,692 units were enrolled.
A historical milestone in the sense that it was the best August in sales of the series, with an increase of 48% over the same month of the previous year. This increase responded to the entry into force on September 1 of the regulations for measuring WLTP and RDE emissions for particles. The brands and dealers were forced to remove before that date the non-approved vehicles and therefore the increase. This year, without extraordinary effects, deliveries return to volumes similar to those recorded in 2017. In the first eight months of the year, deliveries of passenger cars and SUVs fell 9.2%, to 883,649 units.
Sales in the private channel are the least affected, of the three channels, due to the comparative effect, with a decrease of 27.5% and 41,657 units. However, in the accumulated year, deliveries to individuals are the ones that are suffering the most, with a decrease of 14.3%, up to 395,055 units. The rental channel is the one that registers this month a higher rate of decline, with a 36% drop.
LIGHT COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
In August, 15,394 light commercial vehicles have been registered. It represents a stagnation of deliveries, since in August last year the same number of light commercial vehicles were marketed. The autonomous channel registers a fall of 14.9% in the month, being the only channel that falls. In the first eight months, the sale of these vehicles registered a growth of 2.4%, with 151,139 units.
INDUSTRIAL AND BUSES
The registrations of industrial vehicles, buses, coaches and minibuses have reduced again, as they had been several months in this year, 25.9%, with 1,285 units. The main responsible are industrial vehicles with a reduction of sales of 32.2%. In the accumulated year, sales of this market segment decreased slightly, with a decrease of 0.7% and 17,817 units.
VALUATION FROM FACONAUTO
Raúl Morales, Communication Director of FACONAUTO, states that “as expected, the market has fallen because it has not been able to compensate for the sharp increase in registrations in August last year, prior to the entry into force of the WLTP approval cycle.
“However, the self-registrations that the dealers have made last month, before the arrival, this September 1, of the European regulation of measurement of RDE emissions, have left us the best August since 2007. If we do not have Of course, the last year, which was historic for exceptional reasons, ”he says.
In addition, there is an optimistic view for the coming months. “We continue to perceive that there is a latent demand and a bag of drivers who are postponing their vehicle change. These may benefit in the last four months of an important promotional effort and the units of Km 0 that the points of sale have accumulated in recent months. In this way, we hope that the commercial activity of the dealers will be encouraged and that the market will show signs of improvement again, ”he says.
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