Economists had forecast an increase of 5.8%. The engine of the increase in output is car production which produced extraordinary growth, determining the rate for the whole sector, national news service MTI-Econews cited Miklós Schindele, deputy department chief of the statistics agency, as saying.

After adjusting to seasonal and working day variations, output fell 0.5% month-on-month after a 1.8% growth in September, the Budapest-based agency report.