New car sales increased 8.8% in January year-on-year, according to data published on Thursday by the Automotive Platform (PFA), after holding steady in December.
Nearly 112,000 new passenger car registrations were registered in the first month of 2023, indicates the platform.
The sales volume, however, is still much lower than in 2019 or 2020, points out François Roudier, spokesman for the platform on the BFMTV microphone this Wednesday morning.
“We are still in a market that is suffering terribly,” explains François Roudier.
A percentage in net increase therefore but to relativize, and that hides disparities. Our two largest French car groups in particular, Renault and Stellantis, have taken opposite trajectories.
Stellantis suffered a 9.5% drop in sales in January, while Renault saw its sales increase by almost 24% across all its brands. Meanwhile, sales of the large German group Volkswagen soared 22% last month.
Source: BFM TV
