New car registration slides by 23.7% in December

A total of 10,735 new motor vehicles were registered in December 2018, of which 7,607 were automobiles, according to Statistics Finland.

First registrations decreased by 29.5 per cent from the corresponding month of the previous year.

In December the number of new private cars registered was 6,159, which was 23.7 per cent down from the year before.

The share of new diesel-driven passenger cars was 27.6 per cent.

These data are based on the Vehicular and Driver Data Register of the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (Traficom). The numbers are exclusive of the vehicles on the Åland Islands.

In the January to December period of 2018 a total of 191,803 vehicles were first registered. Compared to the year before, there was decrease of 0.6 per cent.

The number of private cars first registered in the January to December period was 120,499, which is 1.6 per cent up from the year before.

The most common passenger car makes first registered in the January to December period were Toyota, Volkswagen and Skoda.