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 European showrooms starting to resemble ghost towns More hard evidence that the market’s underlying car sales slippage is getting worse rather than better comes with the publication of Acea’s provisional March car sales figures showing that the entire West European continent remains in the vice-like grip of the coldest automotive spell for decades. Most frightening for an already deeply anxious autoindustry is the ferocity and speed at which Europe’s confidence-sapped consumers have evidently chosen to stay away from showrooms packed to the rafters with latest design cars of unprecedented variety and value. Particularly galling for the industry is the drastic deterioration in Germany, where March sales took a headlong 17.1 per cent dive, resulting in the worst March turnout for 26-years.
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