Stoked by deep-seated fears that discriminatory measures aimed specifically at diesels could now be waiting just around the corner, more and more of Europe’s anxious car buyers are continuing to turn their back on diesel-fuelled cars
AID compiled car sales statistics reveal that in much of Western Europe demand for new diesel cars is continuing the seemingly inexorable slide down the slippery slope.
During this year’s July to September third quarter, West Europe’s diesel car sales share had slipped to 43.5 per cent.
That’s the third successive quarterly fall in a row and directly compares to a recent high of 52.2 per cent in the fateful fourth quarter of 2015.
In just under two years, West Europe’s diesel car market shed 8.7 percentage points of market share.
All of which throws a timely spotlight on the intensifying desertion of diesel car buyers, with petrol fuelled cars ending up progressively as the main, but not only beneficiaries.
This now widely shared assessment for instance is highlighted in near equal measure in both the UK’s and Germany’s September car market.
AID investigates why an initial trickle is now threatening to turn into a flood.
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