Sales of new passenger cars, runs back – Telegraaf.nl

If the first nine months of 2016 are compared with the same period in 2015, shows the same trend: there were 15600 fewer new cars sold, a decrease of over 5 percent.

Last year, sales of new cars in the last quarter, up a lot. The change in the tax legislation with effect from 1 January 2016, was an incentive to for the end of 2015 is still a new car to purchase.

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Moreover, the sale of new cars, but a small part of the total car sales. Until september 2016, there were over 1.7 million cars sold. Almost 1.5 million of them were second-hand. In the third quarter of 2016, there were 473 thousand were sold, compared to more than 452 thousand a year earlier. That is an increase of 5 percent.

Until september 2016, there were more new and used passenger cars sold than in the same period of 2015. It comes to an increase of over 3 percent, which is due to the second-hand market. For over two years the quarterly sales figures for used cars a positive picture.

In the last ten years, in 2011 the majority of new cars sold. In the years since then, that number. With regard to the sale to private individuals, most new cars to the over-55s. Also, if the number of cars sold is plotted against the size of this group, the majority of new passenger cars by over-55s bought.

as of 2011 decreases the number of newly purchased cars in this group are relatively less likely than young people. Per thousand persons purchased over-55s in 2011, 27 new cars. In 2015 there were 17 (-40 percent). In the group 36 to 55 years, the decrease amounted to 53 percent and in the youngest age group, 61 percent.