In June this year, new passenger car registrations in the German market totaled 339,600 units, up 18.3 percent month on month and increasing by eight percent year on year, according to the data released by the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA). Meanwhile, in the half of this year, Germany's new passenger car registrations increased by seven percent year on year, totaling 1,733,900 units.
According to the VDA, in June of the current year 565,000 passenger cars rolled off production lines in Germany, which represents a month-on-month increase of 26.8 percent and a year-on-year rise of 10 percent. German passenger car output in the January-June period of this year amounted to 3,029,800 units, showing a four percent growth compared to the same period of last year.
In June this year, a total of 431,900 passenger cars were exported from Germany, up by 24.8 percent month on month and increasing by 10 percent compared to June last year. In the first six months of the current year, German passenger car exports amounted to 2,301,500 units, up by two percent year on year.