Wasn’t Europe supposed to be a dying market for diesel cars?

WESTERN EUROPE / DIESELS AID EXCLUSIVE
Diesels still humming along nicely
Wasn’t Europe supposed to be a dying market for diesel cars?

Published: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:23:15 GMT
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AID Diesel Car Sales graph 6-months 2014

Diesel fuelled passenger cars were supposed to be killed by the latest generation of more fuel-efficient petrol cars and hybrids in particular. But here it still is, with 3.4m buyers during this year’s first half, more than half the new cars sold in Western Europe during this year’s first half were still diesel powered, AID’s exclusively compiled car sales figures reveal.

53.6%
First half diesel-fuelled cars share of West Europe’s new car market

As a consequence, pointing to the seemingly unwavering loyalty to the autoindustry’s latest frugal oilburners, during this year’s first half diesel-fuelled cars still captured 53.6 per cent of West Europe’s slowly recovering new car market - almost the same as during last year’s first half period, AID figures show.

By any measure, demand for diesel-powered passenger cars in Western Europe has held up markedly better than some forecasters had earlier expected...more

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53.6% First half diesel-fuelled cars share of West Europe’s new car market

53.6%
First half diesel-fuelled cars share of West Europe’s new car market