New car sales in Poland rebounded in September after falling for the last four months, mainly due to seasonal factors, private car market research agency Samar reportedly said on Monday.
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Poles bought 19,142 new passenger cars last month, up 11.4% on a year ago. This was the first annual double-digit rise since April 2004. New car sales grew nearly 10% on the month, Reuters said, citing Samar’s monthly report.
“The September figure is not much of a surprise, we are always seeing some kind of a rebound after holidays,” Samar head Wojciech Drzewiecki told Reuters.
“There is a chance we should see total sales at the end of this year at the level comparable to 2005, or around 230,000 cars. But sales are still very weak,” he reportedly added.
Total sales fell almost 5% to 175,349 vehicles in the first nine months of the year compared with a year earlier, the report noted.
Toyota remained the market leader, selling 21,941 cars in the first nine months of the year, followed by Volkswagen’s Czech unit Skoda with 20,769 cars and Italy’s Fiat with 18,272 cars sold.
Reuters noted that sales of new cars have been falling nearly every month since Poland’s entry into the European Union in May 2004, which ended import restrictions and sparked a heavy inflow of used cars from other EU countries.
