Car production down by 56% in August y/y

The Institute for Automotive Market Research, Samar has reported that factories in Poland produced 28,292 cars and vans in August 2015. This number is lower than last year, by 56,06 percent, when the amount stood at 36,098 vehicles. In a year to year comparison however, the  production was greater  by 28,2 percent, i.e. 6,224 cars. The report said that "so far the total production in 2015 amounts to 445 179 cars. It is an increase of 12,81 percent and 50,555 vehicles as compared to last year." Of this 86,73 percent were passenger cars, whereas 13,17 percent were vans. Samar added that the production decrease in August was due to traditional 'holiday' time in the automotice industry. There is a break in production in all factories during this time."