The EU’s auto market decline, however, slowed down in October, from an 11% decrease in September, and the trend was different among the member states, ACEA also said.
Germany’s auto market, the largest in the EU, saw a slow growth, of 0.5%, to 259,530 units, while Great Britain witnessed a 12.1% increase to over 151,000 cars.
The auto markets in France, Italy and Spain saw a slower increase on the year in October. France saw a 7.8% decline in new car registrations to 162,335 units, Italy saw a 12.4% decrease to 116,875 units and Spain saw a 21.7% drop to 44,873 units.
The Netherlands witnessed the sharpest decline of 38.4% to 26,896 new car registrations, while Denmark saw the highest increase of 22.7% to 15,216 units.
The EU’s auto market fell 7.3% to 10.33 million units on the year in the first ten months of 2012. Great Britain was the only market to see growth, with new car registrations rising 5% to 1.77 units.
Romania’s auto market shrank 12.2% to 55,910 units on the year in January to October 2012.