Positive First Quarter for New Trucks and Commercial Vehicles Registrations

Increase in registrations for 3.5 to 16-ton vehicles

During the first quarter of 2016, the European market has noticed 87,262 new vehicles registrations, what represents a raise of 17.6% (almost 11.1% only for March) compared with the same period in 2015. Spain (+25%) and Italy (+19.5%) has observed the strongest expansion.

A significative Increase for 16-ton trucks

Trucks registration of over 16-ton-vehicles has increased of 12.2% (27,831 units) in March 2016, being 3,000 registrations more than in March 2015. In this category, Italy has noticed an increase in registrations of 25.2%. At the end of March 2016, France has reported a growth of 18.6%. Moreover, Poland has noticed a rise of 46.3%. Other countries such as the Netherlands has also observed excellent results with an increase of 30.3% compared with March 2015.

Europe: rising in commercial vehicles market

In March 2016, the new registrations of European commercial vehicles represented a total of 204,157 units (7.6% more than in March 2015) which represents a 31st consecutive month of growth. Compared with March 2015, Italy has obseved an increase of 32.1%,  5% for France, 3.3% for the UK and  3% for Germany. But the Spanish market fell of 1.3% in  March 2016.

In the first quarter of 2016, 466,839 new commercial vehicles have been registered in Europe being 11.3% more than last year.

Slight increase for coaches and buses

In the first three months of 2016, registrations of European buses and coaches has counted up 9,031 units (3.7% more than 2015 first quarter). Registrations in the UK has decreased by 13.8% and by 12.7% in Italy whereas the opposite is happening in other European countries: this number is increasing.

Bus and coach registrations has increased in 2% between March 2015 and March 2016, representing a difference of 3 800 units. This growth is very significant for France (+12.7%) and Germany (+ 10.5%). Compared to March 2015, UK registrations has fallen by 2.9%, Spain's by 20.4% and Italy's by 39.3%.

This overall increase is good news for the trucks and commercial vehicles manufacturers's  turnover in Europe - it allowed them to maintain a certain level of growth.