In the first ten working days of the month alone, more than 10,000 new passenger cars were added to the register. In a whole month, their number could exceed 22,000. That is 4,500 more than in November. For the whole year, this would mean 205,000 cars sold, ie 18 percent less year-on-year.
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According to Jan Hurt, CEO of Porsche ČR, which imports Volkswagen cars to the Czech Republic, sales and order status improved significantly after the opening of showrooms, but the overall market decline of 20 percent also hit the VW Group brands very hard. However, due to the uniqueness of this year, he did not want to compare it with last year.
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“Closed showrooms in the spring, uncertain customers, closed production plants, which only reacted with delay to growing demand in the summer, when the situation began to stabilize, long waiting times and again closed stores in the autumn,” said Hurt.
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“New fundamental models came into play, which we had to market in non-traditional ways. All this in the first year, when non-compliance with CO2 limits will have a significant impact on the economy of producers, so the offer of classic combustion versions was optimized and, conversely, the offer of hybrids was expanded and purely electric models were introduced, ”he added.
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The order of the best-selling brands did not change significantly in the first half of December. The first is ahead of Škoda Auto, followed by Volkswagen and followed by Hyundai. Toyota moved to fourth place from fifth place and Renault is fifth.
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In the first eleven months, sales of new passenger cars in the EU fell by 25.5 percent year on year to about nine million units. In the Czech Republic, there was a decrease of 21 percent to 182,638 units in the same period.
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