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Sales of new passenger cars reached 822 thousand in October 2022 in the enlarged Europe, according to ACEA. This is 2.88%, or 23.0 thousand more than in the previous year. In the first ten months of 2022, some 9,094 thousand cars were sold in Europe, down 8.72% yoy.
In October, most vehicles (209 thousand) were sold in Germany (up 16.8% yoy), followed by the United Kingdom (134 thousand, up 26.4%), France with 125 thousand cars (up 5.45%), 116 thousand new vehicles were registered in Italy (up 14.7%) and 66.0 thousand in Spain (up 11.7%). The five largest countries accounted for 71.0% of total new vehicles registered in October 2022.
In absolute terms, the best performance in sales of new cars has been seen in Germany (up 30.0 thousand cars) and the United Kingdom (up 28.1 thousand cars). At the other end of the scale, Denmark and Hungary showed the weakest change in registration of new cars in October when compared to last year (down 1.81 thousand and down 0.871 thousand cars, respectively).
| Sales Of New Passenger Cars - Growth, yoy | Unit | Feb 2021 | Mar 2021 | Apr 2021 | May 2021 | Jun 2021 | Jul 2021 | Aug 2021 | Sep 2021 | Oct 2021 | Nov 2021 | Dec 2021 | Jan 2022 | Feb 2022 | Mar 2022 | Apr 2022 | May 2022 | Jun 2022 | Jul 2022 | Aug 2022 | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Belgium | % | -23.6% | -16.7% | -15.3% | -5.09% | 7.00% | ||||||||||||||||
| Bulgaria | % | -1.79% | 35.2% | -1.19% | -0.869% | 30.2% | ||||||||||||||||
| Cyprus | % | -19.2% | 26.8% | -6.58% | -6.89% | 9.71% | ||||||||||||||||
| Czechia | % | -22.5% | -16.8% | -16.9% | -26.9% | 0.802% | ||||||||||||||||
| Denmark | % | -29.0% | -19.8% | -27.0% | -26.7% | -19.5% | ||||||||||||||||
| Estonia | % | -25.8% | -1.45% | -26.0% | -32.1% | 14.8% | ||||||||||||||||
| Finland | % | -27.3% | -20.3% | -25.6% | -26.5% | -10.0% | ||||||||||||||||
| Hungary | % | -13.6% | -5.18% | -16.4% | -15.3% | 3.56% | ||||||||||||||||
| Ireland | % | 9.76% | -10.7% | -22.1% | -17.3% | 35.5% | ||||||||||||||||
| Latvia | % | -7.31% | 17.1% | 6.19% | -5.83% | 17.0% | ||||||||||||||||
| Poland | % | -13.1% | -13.3% | -9.44% | -10.7% | 1.61% | ||||||||||||||||
| Slovakia | % | -10.7% | -17.3% | -2.42% | -19.2% | -1.22% | ||||||||||||||||
| Slovenia | % | -8.48% | -9.07% | -15.1% | -14.2% | -5.38% | ||||||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | % | -15.8% | -20.6% | -24.3% | -9.03% | 1.21% |
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