Fuel injection: Car sales recovering from slow start at beginning of year

The car market in Poland is slowly returning to its previous sales levels. In the first quarter of this year there was a total decrease in new car turnover of only 6%. In January sales had dropped more than 10%. The sales leaders are Fiat with 30% of the market, Daewoo at 21%, and Opel with 7%. Daewoo sales dropped 5% while the other two gained slightly. Those three account for 60% of the Polish passenger car market. Smaller manufacturers such as Peugeot, Renault and Seat managed to sell surprisingly well this year. Despite the decrease in sales Poland is still ranked eighth for car sales in Europe. (Prawo i Gospodarka, page 1, 2) M.M.