In July, registrations of new passenger cars fell by 5.7 percent year on year to 1.07 million units. In France, for example, sales even rose by 3.9 percent.
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In August, there was again a stronger year-on-year decline, by 18.9 percent to 769,525 cars.
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The best in August was the Italian market, where there was a year-on-year decline of only 0.4 percent. On the contrary, Germany and France recorded a huge drop – by 20 and 19.8 percent, respectively.
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Car sales were weak, especially in the spring, when there was a rapid drop in demand and disruption of production due to the first wave of the covid-19 pandemic.
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The biggest year-on-year decline occurred in April, when 76.3 percent fewer cars were sold than a year ago – only 270,682 cars.
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