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Commenting briefly on the new vehicle sales statistics for December 2017, Naamsa said that the industry ended the year on a weak note, with aggregate industry sales coming in at 40 636 units in the final month of 2017.
This represents a decline of 1 008 vehicles or a fall of 2,4% compared to the total new vehicle sales of 41 644 units during the corresponding month in 2016.
The December 2017 new passenger car market and light commercial vehicle market reflected a year-on-year volume decline of 6,4% in the case of cars and a noteworthy improvement in the case of light commercial vehicles of 7,0%. Sales of medium and heavy commercial vehicles were essentially unchanged year on year.
In contrast, export sales recorded a decline in December 2017 and at 17 374 units reflected a fall of 1 333 vehicles or 7,1% compared to the 18 707 vehicles exported during December 2016. This was largely attributable to the effect of model run-out and new model introduction of the latest Volkswagen Polo range in 2018.
