Demand for cars is up with Toyota leading the pack in terms of growth

The demand for new cars is reviving, claims a report prepared by sector research company Samar. Monthly sales in September, grew 27.6% compared to August to 30,694 cars, which exceeded the 27.1% growth recorded in September 2002. The cumulative figure for the first nine months of the year shows 257,853 new cars were sold, which is 11.8% more than in the same period last year. "If this trend continues over the next few months, then sales were exceed volumes forecast (340,000) by 5-6,000 cars," commented the head of Samar Wojciech Drzewiecki. The highest growth rates were noted by Skoda (22.6%) and Toyota (53.4%). Fiat managed to boost its sales by 5.8%, while Volkswagen was the only producer whose sales fell as compared to 2002. (www.onet.pl) M.K.