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Fading demand for
diesel powered cars, likely fuelled in large part by an intensifying drumbeat of anti-diesel media
reporting and insinuations of forthcoming discriminatory measures specifically aimed
against diesel cars like inner city driving bans, have evidently sunk their teeth into a
segment that until recently still accounted for just over half of West Europe’s new car sales
That’s the message from exclusive latest AID compiled January car sales numbers showing that 2017
began just in the same manner that last year has ended. Europe’s new car buyers are still dumping
diesel fuelled cars for more thirsty petrol powered models. ‘Better safe than
sorry’.
Diesels slipped to 47.4 per cent from 51.1 per cent
Hard evidence that today’s intensifying diesel bashing has further sunk its teeth into an already
depleting market for diesels comes from AID’s January car sales figures in Western Europe, showing that the
sales share of diesels has now slipped to 47.4 per cent from 51.1 per cent
during the same month last year.
Drawing attention to the seemingly intensifying loss of market share, that’s a loss of 4.1 percentage points
of market share in just 12 months...more
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