Registrations in the month - according to data from Acea, the European manufacturers' association - were 1,383,410, down 2.8% compared to March 2023. In the first three months of the year, a total of 3,395 cars were sold.049 cars, 4.9% higher than the same period last year.
Petrol and diesel conquered less than half of the market (47.8%, compared to 51.8%. Stellantis registered 228,740 cars in March, 8.7% less than the same month in 2023, market share fell from 17.6% to 16.5%. The pre-crisis levels for the European car market are still far away. This was underlined by the Centro Studi Promotor, which highlights the drop of -21.9% in March and 18.1% in the first quarter compared to 2019. The recovery of the car market in the area which began in August 2022, after a first decline in December (-3.8%) and a recovery in January and February of this year - he explains - was therefore interrupted last month.