Car sales across Western Europe have risen 8% in April, year on year, according to LMC Automotive’s latest data.
Monthly vehicle sales jumped to 1,213,990 vehicles, according to estimates based on registration data and LMC’s forecasts.
“Taking account of at least one extra selling day in many markets, the selling rate dropped some way from the lofty high of the previous month,” analyst Emiliano Lewis told Reuters.
“The latest result suggests that March benefited from a quarter-end sales push with some resulting negative impact on April.”
The countries that experienced the biggest bump were Spain (21.2%) and Italy (11.5%). Lower increases in Germany (8%) and United Kingdom (2%) still stayed on the black side of the ledger.
LMC estimates a 5.3% jump in the region this year – taking total sales to 13,185,151.
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