Monthly Sales of New Passenger Cars in Europe

Sales of new passenger cars reached 1,066 thousand in June 2022 in the enlarged Europe (EU plus Iceland, Norway and Switzerland), according to ACEA. This is 16.9%, or 216 thousand less than in the previous year. In the first six months of 2022, some 5,598 thousand cars were sold in Europe, down 13.7% yoy.

Iceland performed relatively the best (up 35.7% yoy) while sales in Croatia showed the weakest change compared to the last year (down 28.4% yoy).

Historically, between 1990 and 2022, sales of passenger cars in Europe reached a high of 1,937 thousand in March 2017 and a low of 292 thousand in April 2020.