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2025: The VDA forecasts a small increase in car and truck sales worldwide, in Germany, Europe, and China with the fastest growth in the USA. China remains the largest car market and electric car producer by far. The VDA predicts that worldwide car sales will increase in 2025 by around 2% to just over 80 … Read more
In full year 2024, China produced over 31 million vehicles and exports increased to nearly 6 million cars — Chery and SAIC were the top Chinese car exporters. 2024 (January to December): the Chinese new car market expanded to 31.44 million vehicles while vehicle production in China increased to 31.3 million vehicles. Chinese carmakers had … Read more
2024 (Q1-Q3): new car sales increased worldwide in all major global vehicle markets (except Japan) with growth strongest in Brazil and Mexico. During the first nine months of 2024, worldwide car sales increased in major markets with the exception of Japan. China remained by far the largest single-country car market in the world with sales … Read more
2024 (First Half Year): Worldwide car sales increased with all large global light vehicle markets expanding except for Japan. During the first semester of 2024, global car markets mostly expanded although Brazil and Mexico were the only large markets with double-digit growth. China remained the largest single-country car market in the world while sales grew … Read more
2024 (Q1): new car sales worldwide increased in most major international markets except Japan with China by far the largest single-country market.
In 2023, car sales worldwide increased in all major countries with China selling a record 25.8 million vehicles and Mexico the fastest growing large market. Worldwide car sales in full-year 2023: car sales in China was at a record 25.8 million vehicles — over 10 million vehicles more than in the USA. India was again … Read more
2023 (Q1-Q3): new car sales increased worldwide in all major global vehicle markets with growth strongest in Mexico, Japan, and Europe. Global car sales continued to increase during the first three quarters of 2023. All major car markets worldwide expanded during the first three quarters of 2023 but the growth was unevenly distributed. Growth was … Read more
Half Year 2023: worldwide new car sales increased in all major global markets with growth particularly strong in Japan, Europe, and the USA. During the first semester of 2023, car sales increased in all major global markets but only China and India have thus far exceeded prepandemic sales levels. New passenger vehicle registrations in Japan … Read more
2023 (Q1): Worldwide new car sales increased in all major world markets except China with growth in passenger vehicle registrations the fastest in Europe. During the first quarter of 2023, car sales in the largest markets in the world increased with the exception of China. Growth was the fastest in Europe but here, as in … Read more
In 2022, international car sales were flat with China the largest single-country market worldwide and India the fastest-growing major global vehicle market. Worldwide car sales in full-year 2022 were flat but the only major international markets recording growth were India and China. China remained by far the largest single-country car market in the world by … Read more