New car registration decreases by 38.6% in April

A total of 13,043 new motor vehicles were registered in Finland in April this year, of which 7,244 were automobiles, according to Statistics Finland.

First registrations decreased by 26.3 per cent from the corresponding month of the previous year.

In April the number of new private cars registered was 5,981, which was 38.6 per cent down from the year before.

The share of new diesel-driven passenger cars was 17.2 per cent.

These data are based on the Traffic Affairs Register of the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (Traficom) and they have been produced by Statistics Finland. The numbers are exclusive of the vehicles on the Åland Islands.

In the January to April period of 2020 a total of 58,243 vehicles were first registered. Compared to the year before, there was an decrease of 10.1 per cent. The number of private cars first registered in the January to April period was 34,252, which is 11.8 per cent down from the year before.

The most common passenger car makes first registered in the January to April period were Toyota, Skoda and Volkswagen.