Today’s newly released statistics from the Motorcheck.ie Car Index show that new car registrations for the month of February exceeded those recorded last year by an encouraging 55%. This relates to 12,310 units for 2010 as compared with 7,896 in 2009.
Commenting on the major increase Motorcheck.ie Director Shane Teskey says “It’s great to see sales rising at such a level. The government scrappage scheme has given the industry a much needed boost. One significant benefit is that buying a new car is no longer seen as ‘politically incorrect’ and consumers are starting to take advantage of the highly discounted pricing strategy adopted by manufacturers”.
Total sales for 2010 are now 21% ahead of 2009 and with pre-orders building look set to continue ahead of last years low.
The number of used cars being imported into the state has also started to increase. Although still behind last year’s figures by 25% this is a substantial improvement on the 46% drop experienced in January.
League Table
Top of the table for ‘Manufacturer’ in February is Toyota with 4,036 registrations. Ford comes second just 105 registrations behind with their Fiesta and Focus models have proven to be first and second most popular models with 1,471 and 1,348 respectively.
Diesel continues to outsell Petrol with 59% (17,047) of new vehicles registered.
Band B moves up a percentage point as the most common tax class with 44% (12,750) of all registrations.
The battle for most popular colour gets close as only 17 registrations now separates Silver (7,157) from Black (7,140) as the most popular colour on Irish roads.
There have been 86 convertibles registered in Ireland so far this year.
Further information please contact:
Shane Teskey
Tel: 086 8079066
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