New car sales in Europe up 8.9% in Q1 2015

Europe’s passenger car market is seeing acche din. New car sales were 8.9% higher in Q1 2015 than in the same period in 2014, according to the latest new car sales analysis from automotive intelligence provider JATO Dynamics. Sales in March were 11.1% higher than a year earlier.

All of Europe’s five biggest car markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) have recorded increased volumes in each month of the year so far, with particularly large increases in units registered in March 2015 compared to March 2014. Spain recorded an increase of more than 33,000 units, or ...