{"id":7432,"date":"2025-09-08T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7432\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:44:08","slug":"wstern-europes-car-market-up-in-august-globaldata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/7432\/","title":{"rendered":"Wstern Europe’s car market up in August – GlobalData"},"content":{"rendered":"

For August 2025, the Western European PV (passenger vehicles \u2013 cars) market continued its trend of growth as registrations climbed 3% YoY, with a total of 677k units. That gain, however, comes off an already weak August 2024, leaving the month\u2019s performance relatively modest. Overall, 2025 remains challenging for the sector: YTD sales are essentially flat versus a weak 2024, at 7.7 million units.<\/p>\n

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Across the region\u2019s five major markets, only Spain delivered a genuinely encouraging result, extending its year\u2011long streak of strong growth. Elsewhere, the positive monthly YoY results, notably in France, Germany and Italy, could not offset weak performances owing to weak economic backdrops.<\/p>\n

\"\"Source: GlobalData<\/p>\n

Of the big five markets, Spain\u2019s was easily the most impressive. Spain remains one of the region\u2019s strongest growth markets, with sales up 17% YoY\u2014its fourth consecutive month of growth above 15% and a full 12 months of continuous expansion thanks to the MOVES plan, which is stimulating both private and commercial demand. <\/p>\n

France and Germany also grew by 2% YoY and 5% YoY respectively, though their monthly gains were too modest to shift overall market sentiment. Germany\u2019s outlook does look more favourable with increasing fiscal support heading into 2026, while political headwinds in France, especially surrounding the country\u2019s fiscal deficit, continue to dampen consumer confidence and sales.<\/p>\n

\"\"Source: GlobalData<\/a><\/p>\n

The Italian PV market fell for a fourth consecutive month in August as registrations totalled 67k units, down nearly 3% YoY; August 2025 registrations were weak mainly due to one fewer working day, compounded by a longer\u2011term demand shortfall versus 2019 and sharp declines in petrol\/diesel cars, while ongoing regulatory uncertainty and consumers delaying purchases as the market transitions toward electrification (awaiting incentives and clearer rules) further depressed volumes.<\/p>\n

The UK PV market registered 83k units in August 2025, a second consecutive month of decline, with sales down 2% YoY \u2014 August is a weak month traditionally in the UK though, while September\u2019s result will be pivotal, as the new number-plate cycle usually accounts for about one in every seven new car registrations annually.<\/p>\n

\"\"Source: GlobalData<\/p>\n

This article was first published on GlobalData\u2019s dedicated research platform, the\u00a0Automotive Intelligence Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For August 2025, the Western European PV (passenger vehicles \u2013 cars) market continued its trend of growth as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[72,61,60,123,892],"class_list":{"0":"post-7432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-markets","12":"tag-vehicle-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432","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=7432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}