Registration of new cars slides 15% in April

The number of first registrations of new motor vehicles declined by 12.9% in April 2017 compared to that in the same month of the previous year, according to Statistics Finland.

A total of 16,288 new motor vehicles were registered in April, of which 10,999 were automobiles. The number of new passenger cars registered was 9,394 or 15.3 per cent down from the number in April 2016. The share of new diesel-driven passenger cars was 32.2 per cent. These data are based on the Vehicular and Driver Data Register of the Finnish Transport Safety Agency and they have been produced by Statistics Finland.

In the January to April period of 2017 a total of 66,527 vehicles were first registered. Compared to the year before, there was an increase of 0.9 per cent. The number of passenger cars first registered in the January-April period was 42,513 or 3.8 per cent down from the year before.

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