date 03/02/2018
Flensburg, March 2, 2018. 261,749 Passenger cars ( car ) were newly registered in February. That was +7.4 percent more than in the same month last year. The share of commercial approvals was 63.1 percent (+ 0.8%). Private registrations increased by + 21.3 percent.
Except for Audi (-3.6%) and BMW (-0.7%) recorded the German Brands Growth in Smart (+ 35.8%) and VW (+12.4%) were double digits. The largest share of the registrations claimed the brand VW (18.3%).
For the import brands, the largest new vehicle registrations accounted for Skoda (6.3% / + 17.8%), Renault (3.8% / + 12.2%) and Hyundai (3.0% / + 9.7%). The most significant increase in registration was shown by the statistics for vehicles of the brand DS with +128.6 percent off. Jaguar (-23.8%), Alfa Romeo (-23.7%), Lexus (-23.6%) and Subaru (-22.3%) and Nissan (-21.4%) were down more than 20% %).
Vehicles of the compact class accounted for a registration share of 22.6 percent (+3.0%), followed by the SUVs with 18.0 percent, which increased by +29.6 percent and the small car with 14.6 percent (+6.2 percent). RVs achieved the largest increase in registrations (+ 1.3%) with + 48.5%. The lowest new registrations reached the upper class with 0.9 percent, although it increased by +3.4 percent over the same month.
Gasoline increased by +25.9 percent and accounted for just under two-thirds (62.9%) of the registrations out. The proportion of diesel-powered car fell by -19.5 percent compared to February 2017 and thus came to just under a third (32.5 percent). There were 2,546 electrical car to new registration (1.0% / + 64.7%) and 8,289 hybrids (3.2% / + 63.1%), including 2,559 with plug-in (1.0% / + 77.3%). For natural gas vehicles, which reported approval statistics at 0.3 percent, there was a significant increase of +414.3 percent. The proportion of liquefied natural gas car was 0.1 percent (+9.0%).
The average CO 2 Output was 127.7 g / km constant to the same month.
For commercial vehicles alone achieved the Lorry ( truck ) with 22,266 units, an increase of +8.0 percent. The other commercial vehicle classes were in decline. The tractors Overall, a decline of 15.2 percent, with the decline in the Tractor 16.5 percent was. New motorcycle registrations increased by +9.3 percent.
In total, 298,267 motor vehicles ( automotive ) and thus +6.9 percent more than in the same month last year and 21,155 Car Trailer (-0.4%).
The used car market declined overall in February (-3.8%) whereby buses and coaches (+11.1%), Tractor (+6.0%) and the truck (+4.2%) each recorded increases. The biggest decline was in the motorcycles registered (-22.0%), the title transfers both car went down by -3.4 percent.
The entire press release can be found here: Press release No. 05/2018
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