{"id":224126,"date":"2026-01-02T21:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224126\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T21:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:48:14","slug":"corks-2025-car-sales-growth-was-above-national-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/224126\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork&#8217;s 2025 car sales growth was above national average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">More than 14,000 new cars were registered in Cork last year, with 16% of those registered electric, as Cork\u2019s car sales grew faster than the national average, according to the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (Simi).<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">In Cork, 14,301 new cars were registered in 2025 \u2014 up 4.5% when compared to 13,692 in 2024 \u2014 higher than the 3% national increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Of these, 2,310 cars sold in Cork last year were electric, up 41.72% from the 1,630 in the previous year. This was again higher, on average, than the 35.1% increase recorded across Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Nationally, new car registrations for 2025 reached 124,954. Grey retained the top-selling colour for the 10th year running, followed by black and blue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Market share for 2025 sees petrol accounting for 25.11%, hybrid 22.48%, electric 18.89%, diesel 17.09%, and plug-in hybrid 14.82%. Automatic transmissions rose to 75.25% of the market share.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Simi director general Brian Cooke said Ireland comfortably surpassed 2025 Climate Action Plan targets, adding: \u201cThe 261 sales period has now commenced, and the Irish motor industry is optimistic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 14,000 new cars were registered in Cork last year, with 16% of those registered electric, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,4257,79,113,61,60,6395],"class_list":["post-224126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cork-business","tag-cork-news","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-motoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}