New car sales in Laois dropped 12% in 2020
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Laois had 1,180 new cars registered in 2020, according to figures released from the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI).
This represented a drop of 12.07% on the 1,342 cars registered the previous year. Nationally, new car registrations for 2020, finished at 88,324 -25% down on 2019 (117,109).
New Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) registrations in 2020 saw a decrease of 14.2% (21,732) compared to 2019 (25,336). While New Heavy Commercial Vehicle registrations (HGV) saw a decrease of 22.3% (2,066) in comparison to 2019 (2,659).
Imported Used Cars saw 79,969 registrations in 2020 a decrease of 29.8% on 2019 (113,926).
4,013 new electric cars were registered in 2020 in comparison to 3,444 in 2019.
Other stats of note show a changing market place in 2020. Diesel accounted for 43.29%, Petrol 36.91%, Hybrid 11.86%, Electric 4.54%, and Plug-In Hybrid 2.78%. Diesel remains the most popular engine type, while hy
The AA has reported over 130,000 breakdowns in 2020 and it attributes some of these to people holding onto current cars or opting to buy second-hand ones.