Switzerland car market
9382 new cars were redeemed in Switzerland and Liechtenstein in April. As little as since the oil crisis in the 1970s.
Waiting for the customers: The Mercedes-Benz dealership in Steinhausen.
–Mercedes Benz
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As auto-schweiz, the association of Swiss automobile importers announced on Sunday, «leftegt der Accumulated market decline since the beginning of the year at 35.6 percent». In numbers: During the first four months of the past year 100 685 redemptions of new passenger cars were registered, this year there were only 64 834. «Since the start of the lockdown in mid-March, around 800 fewer cars have been registered on an average working day than usual»Explains media spokesman Christoph Wolnik.
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“The high proportion of alternative drives of 21.2 percent in the first few months is encouraging,” writes auto-schweiz. And warns at the same time: “However, both demand and availability for electric cars and plug-in hybrids are likely to be affected in the further course of the year.” Background: “The corona crisis could lead to cheaper models without an electric motor being used in the coming months.” In addition, the inventory of «plug-in vehicles» in Switzerland is very low due to production.
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Enormous losses
The lockdown has dealers and importers beriding esuffered normal sales losses. The months of March to June are among the most important months in the vehicle business. The monthly new registrations are not only higher than the annual average, not only for passenger cars, but also for commercial vehicles. “Every deal, every vehicle handover that a dealer did not do in the spring can hardly be caught up later in the year,” states Christoph Wolnik. This also applies to the Corona year 2020.
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The hope of dealers and importers is that the showrooms will open on May 11th. “Of course, in strict compliance with all hygiene and safety regulations,” continued Christoph Wolnik. A corresponding protection concept is available. Auto-schweiz’s revised market forecast for redeeming new passenger cars in 2020 is now 240 000. This would correspond to a massive decline of around 23 percent compared to the previous year. With such an overall result, 2020 would be the worst car year in four and a half decades.
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Only Porsche in a plus
Only one brand – in addition to the niche supplier BMW Alpina – was able to grow despite the corona crisis in the first four months: Porsche. The sports car brand grew by 13.8 percent year-on-year to 991 sales. SsangYong had the worst decline until the end of April: if the South Koreans sold 191 vehicles in the first four months of 2019 in 2019, there are only 3 of them this year Vehicles, while the pure Stromer posted a small damper and a minus of 11.9 percent. (lie)
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