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This
June, despite there being at least one fewer working day in some
countries, new car sales in Western Europe still topped last year’s same
month levels by 1.4 per cent, according to provisional Acea compiled car
sales numbers. June’s small advance in sales, the 5th gain in six
months, brings West Europe’s cumulative car sales total to 7.8m after
6-months, up 3.7 per cent over last year’s comparative total
Despite June’s apparent sharp slowing in advance, the underlying health
of Europe's car market still appears to be a great deal better than
could have been expected as recently as three months ago.
At half-time West Europe’s car market has grown 3.7 per cent, keeping
autoindustry hopes alive that for the whole of this year sales will
comfortably breach the 14 million level, likely reaching between
14.2m and 14.4m units, according to AID’s latest forecast.
In spite of June’s working day handicap in some of the region’s markets
such as Germany, most countries still reported higher June sales and
this year’s first half.
In June, that’s fourteen of the region’s eighteen markets. Only the UK,
Eire and Finland did not manage to improve on last year’s first-half
sales.
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