EU commercial vehicles sales up strongly in January

Brussels - European Sales of light and heavy commercial vehicles all rose in January 2007, compared with January 2006.

New Light Commercial Vehicles up to 3.5t In total, 180,586 new vans were registered in January 2007 in Europe (EU23+EFTA), rising +9.5% above last year's result. Calendar effects, although limited across Europe, might have contributed to good performance of some of the markets having one extra working day.

Also new heavy truck registrations climbed in Europe (EU22+EFTA) in January

Mild winter and good investment climate boosting industrial activity at the beginning

were by some countries evoked as likely explanations of this encouraging result.

Reflecting positive market developments in the heavy truck sector, the market for new commercial vehicles above 3.5t rose by +13.2% in January 2007. In total, 34,035 new trucks were registered in Europe (EU22+EFTA).

The market for new Buses and Coaches in Europe (EU21+EFTA) rebounded at the beginning of the year (+14.4%). The results on main national markets were mixed: while the UK (+18.9%),

Germany (+38.7%) and Spain (+119.6%) went up, Italy decreased (-7%) and France stagnated. The New Member States figure takes into account neither Polish nor Hungarian bus and coach

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