Bad Homburg. The passenger car market closes in March with around 345,600 registrations. This corresponds to a minus of 0.5 percent compared to the same period last year. After the first three months, approximately 880,000 registrations were achieved, exceeding the very high volume of the previous year by 0.2 percent. The [...]
Bad Homburg: The Bundestag and Bundesrat have taken an important step by amending the Federal Immission Control Act and the Road Traffic Act to largely reduce the risk of driving bans. In particular, the new legal regulation, according to which driving bans are generally disproportionate if the annual average NOx [...]
Bad Homburg. With 268,867 new registrations, the passenger car market in February achieved an increase of 2.7 percent over the same month last year. After two months, the market is up 0.6 percent and, with 534,569 registrations, has the highest volume of new registrations in 20 years. With 204,665 registrations, [...]
Bad Homburg. The passenger car market closed in January 2019 with 265,702 registrations and a minus of 1.4 percent compared to the previous year. Despite the slight decline, this volume represents the second-best January registration result in 20 years. The current market result is primarily the result of declining private [...]
Bad Homburg. The year 2018 ends with 3,435,778 new passenger car registrations. This almost reached the very high volume of the previous year. The VDIK member companies increased their sales by 1.4 percent in 2018 and sold 1,331,498 passenger cars in Germany. They increased their overall market share from 38.2 [...]
Bad Homburg. The commercial vehicle market in Germany continued its positive trend from 2017 into 2018. With 386,282 units, corresponding to a growth rate of 4.6 percent, the commercial vehicle sector again reached a record level. All weight classes contributed to this result: Sales of light commercial vehicles rose by [...]
Frankfurt. The year 2018 is expected to close with 3.42 million new passenger car registrations and thus almost reach the previous year's level. The VDIK members will increase their sales by one percent to approximately 1.325 million units. Private and fleet market growing The private market is growing by two [...]
Frankfurt. The commercial vehicle market in Germany is continuing its positive trend from 2017 into 2018. With an expected 387,000 units and growth of 4.8 percent, the commercial vehicle sector is heading for another record year. The VDIK members increased their share above average and achieved a sales volume of [...]
Bad Homburg. As expected, with 252,628 new registrations, October is below the result of the same month last year. The decline corresponds to a minus of 7.4 percent. With 2.93 million newly registered passenger cars in the first ten months, the market is still 1.4 percent up on the same [...]
Bad Homburg. Numerous international motor vehicle manufacturers have announced that they will offer attractive exchange programs and thus contribute to accelerated fleet renewal and improved air quality in cities. These programs flank the strategy of switching to state-of-the-art Euro6 vehicles and alternative drive systems, which began immediately after the Diesel [...]