Europe’s diesel car demand remains in robust good health

WESTERN EUROPE / DIESELS AID EXCLUSIVE
Europe’s diesel car demand remains in robust good health
Diesel car sales share, at 53.2 per cent after nine months remains unchanged from a year ago

Published: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:02:14 GMT
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Still early days, but judged from AID’s latest regular snapshot of underlying consumer car buying trends in Europe, the region’s running-cost conscious diesel car buyers have so far failed to switch back to petrol-powered cars. This suggests that the long-tested recipe for the most energy-efficient automotive travel that served Europe’s running cost-conscious motorists for the past two decades remains very much alive and kicking

53.2%
West Europe's three-quarter stage diesel car sales share

That’s the message from AID’s exclusively compiled figures showing that more than half the new cars sold in Western Europe during the first nine months of this year were still diesel powered.

AID’s regular pulse sensing of Europe’s diesel car market, this time at the three-quarter stage, reveals that the region’s diesel car sales share, at 53.2 per cent after nine months of gradual car market recovery, was unchanged from a year ago...more

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53.2% West Europe's three-quarter stage diesel car sales share

53.2%
West Europe's three-quarter stage diesel car sales share