Number of new car registrations slides in January

A total of 16,335 new motor vehicles were registered in the country in January 2020, of which 12,471 were automobiles.

The number of first registrations decreased 11 per cent from that in the corresponding month of the previous year, according to the Statistics Finland.

In January, the number of new private cars registered was 10,798, posting a 8.0 per cent slide from that in January 2019.

The share of new diesel-driven passenger cars was 15.2 per cent.

The numbers are exclusive of the vehicles on the Åland Islands.

The most common private car makes first registered in this January were Toyota, Skoda and, Volkswagen.

The most common private car models were Toyota Corolla, Skoda Octavia, Toyota Yaris, Nissan Qashqai, and Ford Focus.