Germany Sept new-car sales rise 9.4% year on year

LONDON (ICIS)–Germany’s new-car registrations rose 9.4% year on year to 298,002 in September, the country’s federal vehicle authority said in a data release on Wednesday.

On a sequential comparison with August, September registrations were up 21.6%.

For the first nine months of 2016, registrations were up 6.1% year on year to 2.56m, according to the data by Flensburg-based Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA).

Gasoline cars accounted for 53.1% of September’s registrations, diesel cars for 44.6%, with hybrid and electric cars accounting for the remainder.

Volkswagen remained the market leader with a share of 19.5% of September’s registrations.

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