2021-04-07 16:36:23 GMT2021-04-08 00:36:23(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BERLIN, April 7 (Xinhua) Passenger car registrations in Germany increased by almost 36 percent year-on-year in March, the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) announced on Wednesday.
However, the German passenger car market was far from pre-crisis levels , the German Association of the Automotive Industry warned. Although registrations in March had gone up, they were still 15 percent below the level of March 2019.
With 656,452 registered cars in the first quarter of 2021, passenger car registrations in Germany were down 6.4 percent compared to last year, according to KBA. There has never been a worse first quarter since the statistics began, the Association of International Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (VDIK) said in a statement, stressing that new car registrations in Germany were 16 percent below the 10-year average.
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