{"id":770314,"date":"2026-09-14T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770314\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:42:45","slug":"auto-output-falls-7-3-pct-in-first-eight-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770314\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto output falls 7.3 pct in first eight months"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISTANBUL
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T\u00fcrkiye<\/a>\u2019s automotive<\/a> production<\/a> fell 7.3 percent year-on-year to 841,583 vehicles in the first eight months of 2026, according to the Automotive Manufacturers Association<\/a> (OSD<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Passenger car output declined nearly 19 percent to 458,169, while commercial vehicle production rose 12 percent. Output increased 12 percent for light commercial vehicles and 7 percent for heavy commercial vehicles.<\/p>\n

Including tractors, total production reached 854,860 units. The industry\u2019s capacity utilization rate stood at 59 percent.<\/p>\n

Vehicle exports fell 12 percent to 597,594 units in January-August. Passenger car shipments dropped 28 percent by volume, while commercial vehicle exports rose 9 percent.<\/p>\n

Automotive export earnings increased 2.5 percent to $27.2 billion, according to Turkish Exporters Assembly data. The industry retained first place in the assembly\u2019s sectoral export rankings.<\/p>\n

Passenger car export revenue fell 9 percent to $6.8 billion, according to the Uluda\u011f Automotive Industry Exporters\u2019 Association. Exports by vehicle manufacturers rose 1 percent in dollar terms, while those by suppliers increased 4 percent.<\/p>\n

Domestic vehicle sales declined 12 percent to 745,597 units. Passenger car sales fell 14 percent to 564,241, while the commercial vehicle market contracted 5 percent.<\/p>\n

Locally produced vehicles accounted for 35 percent of passenger car sales and 23 percent of the light commercial vehicle market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s automotive production fell 7.3 percent year-on-year to 841,583 vehicles in the first eight months of 2026,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6299,254333,84,1294,229230,27092,40706,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-770314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-automotive","tag-automotive-manufacturers-association","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-osd","tag-production","tag-trkiye","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}