Kilkenny car registrations up by a quarter
Official statistics released today by the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) show that new car registrations for the month of May were down -6%(6,532) compared to May 2015 (6,919) while total new car sales are up 23% (99,740) on the same period last year (80,889).
In Kilkrnny car sales were up almost 25% with 1,976 units sold compared to
to 1587 for the same period in 2015 and that equates to jusy 1.98% of the enire national market.
Registrations have reached almost 100,000 in the first 5 months of this year which is the highest recorded sales for this time frame in the past 7 years. The increased growth in registrations, for commercial vehicles, in the month of May and year to date also demonstrates that business confidence remain strong.
5 Top Selling Makes for the Year 2016:
1 Volkswagen
2 Toyota
3 Hyundai
4 Ford
5 Nissan
• 5 Top Selling Models for the Year 2016
1 Hyundai Tuscon
2 Volkswagen Golf
3 Ford Focus
4 Skoda Octavia
5 Nissan Qashqai
• Top selling car for the month of May Volkswagen Golf
• Top selling colour for the month of May is Black
• Light Commercial Vehicles sales year to date (2016) 17,561-(2015) 13,858 +27%
• Light Commercial Vehicles sales total May (2016) 1,839-(2015) 1,705 +8%
• Heavy Goods Vehicle total sales year to date (206) 1686 (2015) 1103 +53%
• Heavy Goods Vehicle sales May total (2016) 307 (2015) 222 +38%
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