Suzuki leads new car sales in Hungary again
New car registrations in Hungary climbed 11% from a year earlier to 10,832 in December 2017. The most popular brand in the last month of the year was Suzuki, national news agency MTI reports, quoting carinfo.hu.
The full-year growth in new car sales was even higher, a 20.4% increase in January-December compared to 2016, amounting to a total of 116,265 cars, carinfo.hu reported. The highest sales were registered by Suzuki, followed by Ford and Ĺ koda. (In 2016, Suzuki and Ford also ranked first and second, but followed by Opel in third.)
Motorcycle registrations fell by 54% to 59 in December, and rose 3.3% to 2,286 in twelve months.
Bus registrations amounted to 97 in December, up 86.5%, and to 643 for the year, an increase of 55.7%.
Sales of light commercial vehicles fell 4.1% to 2,339 in December, and were down 6.5% at 19,942 in January-December.
Sales of heavy commercial vehicles were down 21.5% at 518 in December, and rose 6.2% to 5,853 in 2017.
Sales of heavy trailers dropped 26.2% to 237 in December, and were up 8.1% at 4,058 in twelve months.
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