Record of New Car Registrations

CompaniesRetail & Consumer ♦ Published: January 12, 2011; 00:07 ♦ (Vindobona)

The number of registrations of new passenger cars registered an increase in Austria of 2.9% compared with 2009, with a total of 328,563 vehicles.

Record of New Car Registrations / Picture: © Volkswagen

With this record of registrations, the highest-ever result of 1992 with 320,094 newly registered motor vehicles, was exceeded by 8,469 units.

For car dealers however, these are not positive news. To be blamed is the so-called short term and day registration of passenger cars, the number of which has increased greatly in 2010. Excluding the day registrations, the increase in new…