Bad Homburg. The passenger car market closed in January 2019 with 265,702 registrations and a minus of 1.4 percent compared to the previous year. Despite the slight decline, this volume represents the second-best January registration result in 20 years. The current market result is primarily the result of declining private [...]
Bad Homburg. The year 2018 ends with 3,435,778 new passenger car registrations. This almost reached the very high volume of the previous year. The VDIK member companies increased their sales by 1.4 percent in 2018 and sold 1,331,498 passenger cars in Germany. They increased their overall market share from 38.2 [...]
Bad Homburg. The commercial vehicle market in Germany continued its positive trend from 2017 into 2018. With 386,282 units, corresponding to a growth rate of 4.6 percent, the commercial vehicle sector again reached a record level. All weight classes contributed to this result: Sales of light commercial vehicles rose by [...]
Frankfurt. The year 2018 is expected to close with 3.42 million new passenger car registrations and thus almost reach the previous year's level. The VDIK members will increase their sales by one percent to approximately 1.325 million units. Private and fleet market growing The private market is growing by two [...]
Frankfurt. The commercial vehicle market in Germany is continuing its positive trend from 2017 into 2018. With an expected 387,000 units and growth of 4.8 percent, the commercial vehicle sector is heading for another record year. The VDIK members increased their share above average and achieved a sales volume of [...]
Bad Homburg. As expected, with 252,628 new registrations, October is below the result of the same month last year. The decline corresponds to a minus of 7.4 percent. With 2.93 million newly registered passenger cars in the first ten months, the market is still 1.4 percent up on the same [...]
Bad Homburg. Numerous international motor vehicle manufacturers have announced that they will offer attractive exchange programs and thus contribute to accelerated fleet renewal and improved air quality in cities. These programs flank the strategy of switching to state-of-the-art Euro6 vehicles and alternative drive systems, which began immediately after the Diesel [...]
Bad Homburg. With 200,134 new registrations, the September result is 30.5 percent down on the same month last year. In the first three quarters of the year, 2.67 million new passenger cars were registered in Germany, corresponding to an increase of 2.4 percent. At 23 percent, the VDIK member companies [...]
Bad Homburg. On the occasion of the current discussion about a new concept to avoid driving bans, the VDIK makes it clear that nitrogen oxide emissions from road traffic have fallen by 70 percent since 1990. The successful VDIK strategy of renewing the fleet to include state-of-the-art Euro6 vehicles and [...]
Bad Homburg. With 316,405 new registrations, August recorded a strong increase of 25 percent compared to the same month last year. The result is significantly influenced by the WLTP test procedure valid from September. In the first eight months of the year, 2,473,284 new passenger cars were registered, an increase [...]