Passenger car registrations: ‐4.6% in January 2019
Brussels, 15 February 2019 – In January 2019, the European passenger car market saw a slow start to the year, posting a 4.6% decline compared to one year ago.
In January 2019, the European passenger car market saw a slow start to the year, posting a 4.6% decline compared to one year ago. Nevertheless, with nearly 1.2 million units registered in total, this still represents the second‐highest January volume on record since 2009.
Demand for new cars fell across almost the entire European Union, including the EU’s five major markets. Spain and Italy posted the strongest declines (down 8.0% and 7.5% respectively), while percentage drops were more modest in the United Kingdom (‐1.6%), Germany (‐1.4%) and France (‐1.1%).
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- 13.0 million Europeans work in the automotive sector
- 11.5% of all manufacturing jobs in the EU
- €374.6 billion in tax revenue for European governments
- €101.9 billion trade surplus for the European Union
- Over 7% of EU GDP generated by the auto industry
- €59.1 billion in R&D spending annually, 31% of EU total
