German auto / domestic market: Maintaining high level in 2018 – Number of registrations: 3.345 million

German auto / domestic market: Maintaining high level in 2018 – Number of registrations: 3.435 million

Düsseldorf

January 18, 2019

German Automobile Industry Federation (VDA):

On January 4, it announced that the number of new car registrations for passenger cars in 2018 was 3,435,800 (see Table 1).

decreased by 0.2% from the previous year.

In 2018

The number of units exported was 3.99 million,

Production volume was 5,118,800 units, which decreased by about 9%.

Number of new registrations by brand

Volkswagen

643,35 units, a 1.5% increase over the previous year (see Table 2)

Mercedes-Benz

2.2% decrease at 319,163 vehicles

BMW

a 1.2% increase at 265,051 units

Japanese brand

Toyota

83,930 units, 3.5% increase

Mazda

67,387 units, a 0.2% increase

Mitsubishi Motors

Increase by 17.1% at 50, 803

Nissan

Reduced by 26.0% at 53,66 vehicles

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