New car registrations in Germany last month rose 10% from a year earlier and the importers’ association VDIK predicted further growth in the second half of the year.

The association added: “The positive overall economic development is clearly having an effect. The car industry’s order backlog has reached an excellent level.”

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The June growth rate was adjusted for an equal number of working days. More bank holidays in June than in the year-ago period led to a 0.3% decline in the non-adjusted figure.

German car association VDA earlier confirmed its forecast of 3.1m new car registrations for this year, up from 2.92m last year.

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