New car registrations in Germany jumped an unadjusted 11 percent in November from a year earlier to about 284,000 units the auto association VDA has announced.
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That brought registrations so far in 2004 to 2.98 million units, 1 percent below the year-ago level, the German industry group said, adding that November 2004 had benefited from one more selling day than November 2003.
Analysts report that the comparison with last year is helped by the fact that November last year was weak. They also say that the market is being lifted by a number of new models, such as the BMW 1-Series and that many manufacturers are using bigger customer incentives to lift sales and share.
