New vehicle sales in August fall to 55‚722

Exports of new vehicles have been hard hit this year with figures falling 16.30% to 164‚034 units. Image: Ratch0013 Free Digital Photos

Sales last month were higher‚ at 57‚595‚ while for the year-to-date‚ total sales of 421‚847 are 4.30% lower than at the same time last year. In particular‚ exports are down 16.30% on the year so far to 164‚034.

The information showed that while passenger vehicle sales dropped 2.70%‚ light commercial vehicle sales lifted 2.10%.

But sales of medium-sized commercial vehicles dropped 3.50%. While sales of heavy commercial vehicles lifted 13.40%‚ sales of buses declined 8.50%.

Source: BDPro via I-Net Bridge