New car registrations up by 25% y/y in July

The number of new registrations of passenger cars and vans in Poland in July amounted to 51,958, according to data from sector research firm Samar. The figure grew by 24.86 percent year-on-year and fell by 0.96 percent month-on-month. This was the 40th consecutive month of growth and best result in July in the 21st century. “Persistently high sales are (traditionally) mainly due to high activity on the part of the institutional customer. For a long time, it is companies that have been the driving force behind the registration of new cars. In July this year their share in the total number of new passenger car registrations has so far been one of the highest in 2018. In July this year companies bought almost 31 percent more cars than last year,” Samar said. The top-selling brands are Skoda with 12.9 percent market share, followed by Volkswagen (10.64 percent) and Toyota (10.61 percent). The most popular model is the Skoda Octavia.