With 924,440 units sold in February, and following the encouraging results recorded at the beginning of the new year, EU passenger car registrations grew for the eighteenth consecutive month, reaching +7.3% over the same month last year.
Considering the main national markets, Spain showed the best outcome reaching +26.1%. Double digit growth also in Italy, +13.2%, with 134,697 new cars registered (nearly 16 thousand more than February 2014), and UK (+12%). Also Germany and France keep growing (respectively +6.6% and +4.5%), positively contributing to the overall expansion recorded.
In the first two months of the year new passenger car registrations reached nearly 2 million units (1,923,484), +7.0% over the same period last year (126 thousand units). Spain drove the growth with an impressive +26.7%, followed by Italy (+12.3%), UK (+8.3%), France (+5.3%) and Germany (+4.6%).
