Car production down 12% in Germany

15/07/2019
Car production down 12% in Germany
In the first six months of 2019 the German car manufacturers produced 2.5 million passenger vehicles on home soil. This figure is 12% down on the total for the first half of 2018.

On the domestic market, passenger car sales registered 1.8 million vehicles, a 1% increase on the same period in 2018. Industry association VDA said this was the largest first-half total this decade.

The organisation expressed some concern that orders from outside Germany in the first half of this year fell by 6% compared to the same months in 2018. It pointed out that 75% of the passenger cars made in Germany go overseas.