European new passenger car registrations rose for the seventeenth consecutive month in January and at a faster rate, totaling nearly 1 million units, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) said Tuesday.
New car registrations in the euro area excluding Malta grew 6.7 percent year-on-year to 999,157 units in January, the Brussels-based ACEA said. Sales rose 4.7 percent in December and 1.4 percent in November.
The latest pace of growth was the strongest since March 2014, when registrations surged 10.6 percent.
Among the big four markets, new car registrations in Spain jumped 27.5 percent in January, followed by Italy with 10.9 percent. German registrations grew 2.6 percent and French sales increased 6.2 percent.
The U.K. logged 6.7 percent growth in car registrations. In the EU as a whole, Greece recorded the biggest growth of 30.6 percent.
The group of 12 countries that joined the EU since 2004 also recorded substantial growth of 4.6 percent in January, the ACEA said.
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