Car sales in Europe slumped noticeably in August. In the European Union, around 1 million new cars were registered last month, 8.4 percent fewer than in the same period last year. This was announced by the European industry association Acea.
In August of last year, automakers had sold many older-standard cars to customers with high discounts due to the switch to the new WLTP exhaust test procedure. This boom was not repeated.
The collapse in Spain was highest at almost 31 percent. In Germany , he was with 0.8 percent in limits.
Among the individual manufacturers, the VW brand lost almost 14 percent, at Renault and Fiat Chrysler , the decline even amounted to about a quarter. BMW came away with a minus of about five percent off, while Daimler with its brands Mercedes-Benz and Smart could even gain a total of about 23 percent.
