New car registrations in the EU dropped 22.3% in June compared with June 2019, to 949,722 units. France was the only market to register growth in June, inching up 1.2% compared with June 2019.
In the first six months, new car registrations in the EU reached over 4.28 million, a 38.1% decline compared with the first half of 2019.
Major declines in new car registrations in the first half were recorded in mature markets such as Spain (-50.9%), Italy (-46.1%), France (-38.6%) and Germany (-4.5%),
By carmakers, the biggest number of new cars registered in Europe were made by Volkswagen with over 1.15 million units (-37.1%), followed by PSA with 710,589 units (-45.2%) and Renault with 454,356 units (-42.7%).
Renault’s Dacia had 125,381 units registered, down 49.3% on the year, while Ford registrations stood at 255,883 units in the first half, down 46.5% on the year.