Import of new private cars raises by 5.1% in Aug

A total of 15,371 new motor vehicles were registered in the country In August 2017, according to Statistics Finland.

First registrations increased by 4.4 per cent from the corresponding month of the previous year.

The number of new private cars registered was 9,669 in August this year, which was 5.1 per cent higher from the number year August in 2016.

The share of new diesel-driven passenger cars was 28.5 per cent.

These data are based on the Vehicular and Driver Data Register of the Finnish Transport Safety Agency and the numbers are exclusive of the vehicles on the Åland Islands.

In the January to August period of 2017 a total of 133,973 vehicles were first registered. Compared to the year before, there was an increase of 3.0 per cent.

The number of passenger cars first registered in the January to August period was 82,972, which is 0.1 per cent down from the year before.

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