Total new registrations of passenger cars in
the European Union fell by nearly 2 percent in 2011, the European Automobile
Manufacturers’ Association reported this week. It was the fourth consecutive
year of declines.
New-car registrations set records in Belgium and
Austria, while German registrations were up nearly 9 percent, although they remain
below their levels Total new
registrations of passenger cars in the European Union fell by nearly 2 percent
in 2011, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association reported this week.
It was the fourth consecutive year of declines.
According to a chart published by Nytimes, in troubled
Greece, fewer than 100,000 new passenger cars were registered. That had not
happened since at least 1990. In 2007, nearly 280,000 new cars were registered.
In Belgium, more than 50 new cars were
registered for every 1,000 people. In Greece, the number was under nine. In
Hungary, where new car registrations are less than half their level of four
years ago, the figure is about half the Greek level.