SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE / MADRID, Sep 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands was the only autonomous community in which car registrations increased in August, increasing by 26.7% compared to the same month of the previous year, to add a total of 3,112 units, according to data from manufacturers’ associations (Anfac) , dealers (Faconauto) and sellers (Ganvam) who also collect that so far this year, the accumulated growth is 25.8%, with 22,313 units.
In the country as a whole, registrations of passenger cars and SUVs in Spain stood at 47,584 units during the month of August, which represents a decrease of 28.9% compared to the same period of the previous year, while with respect to 2019, the last year before the pandemic, the drop was 36%.
Car deliveries in the first eight months of the year reached a volume of 588,314 units, a 12.1% growth compared to 2020 and 12.12% in the pre-Covid comparison.
The vehicle market in Spain deepens the downward trend, these associations have lamented. In this way, August becomes the first month, after the pandemic started, with fewer registrations compared to the same period in 2020. Only August 2010 and 2013 registered fewer sales than last month.
Anfac’s Communication Director, Noemi Navas, explained that “although August is not a month in which large volumes of vehicle sales are made, the drop registered is very important and refers us to data only seen in the previous economic crisis” .
“This reduction responds in part to the fall in production due to the shortage of microchips, which is stopping car factories around the world, but also to the situation derived from the pandemic, which has not yet ended,” he stressed. .
Faconauto Communication Director, Raúl Morales, has indicated that “the summer has not served to see a change in trend in the automotive market, which remains at stunted levels mainly because there are not enough cars to meet the demand.”
“Facing the last part of the year we foresee that this problem will continue and, together with the uncertainty that consumers feel, it places us in a worse sales scenario than we anticipated at the beginning”, so “we trust the recovery for the year that comes, when we foresee that more than a million deliveries will take place “, has insisted.
Ganvam’s Communication Director, Tania Puche, has acknowledged that “in general terms, August is usually a month with fewer sales due to the holiday period, but this atypical year is also hampered by uncertainty regarding health developments and, above all, , economical “.
“In a context of inflation at its highest level in a decade, it is added that those who can buy due to the savings accumulated during confinement, suffer delays in the delivery of the car due to the global shortage of chips, which causes the displacement of the demand from the second-hand market. In short, a cocktail that results in the lowest volume of registrations in a month of August since 2014 “, he emphasized.
By channels, the individual closed August with a volume of 26,084 units, a 30.7% year-on-year decrease, while in the accumulated the decrease was 9.7% with 236,729 units. In addition, companies purchased 17,673 cars in the eighth month of the year, 27.1% less, and 215,654 units since January, a 16.8% growth.
Registrations in the rental channel were 3,827 units last month, which represents a drop of 23.9%, while deliveries in the year to August were 135,931 units, 74.8% more.
The average CO2 emissions of passenger cars sold in August stood at 123.6 grams of CO2 per kilometer (WLTP), 7.6% lower than that registered last year in this period.
