Significant Rise in Used Car Registrations

BusinessEconomy ♦ Published: June 22, 2011; 11:23 ♦ (Vindobona)

Registrations of used motor vehicles in May 2011: +12.3%; passenger cars +9.2%, lorries +13.5%.

Significant Rise in Used Car Registrations / Picture: © Vindobona.org

According to Statistics Austria, a total of 97,656 registrations of used motor vehicles were recorded for May 2011, which marked an increase of 12.3% compared to May 2010; considering April 2011, however, a slight negative development occurred (-0.3%). Used passenger car registrations (74,611) increased by 9.2%. The number of diesel driven passenger cars and petrol driven ones (incl.…