New car registrations up by 17.23 in May

Poland's new passenger car and van registrations rose by 17.23 percent year-on-year in May report by market researcher Samar showed. New registrations totaled 44,452, which was up by 0.24 percent from April. The y/y number has been growing for 26 consecutive months. “High sales in May, as has been for a long time, are due to high activity by institutional clients,” Samar said, adding that most of the purchases were used cars. It also estimated about 9.45 percent of the cars were exported shortly after their registration in May. Between January-May 2017, as many as 229,341 passenger cars were registered (16.78 percent growth y/y).