Wexford car sales stay on track for a bumper year
NeW car registrations in Wexford are well up on last year, with in excess of 500 more cars sold in the year to date than in the same period last year.
And County Wexford has bucked the national trend of a November slowdown, with 12 new cars registed in the month: the same number as in November of 2015.
The figures are revealed in new statistics published by the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) last week. They show that County Wexford car registrations are up 17.7% this year, with 3,478 new cars sold up to the end of November compared to 2,955 over the same 11 months of 2015.
Wexford has a 2.2% share of the national market in 2016, marginally down on the 2.25% at this point in 2015. Wexford’s 1.6% share of the market in November is up slightly on the 1.28% share in the same month last year. Nationally, new car registrations for the month of November at 748 were down 192 cars (20%) compared to November 2015 (940) while total new car sales for the year to date are up 17% – 146,175 compared to 124,460 last year. Despite the November U-turn, the SIMI are optimistic. ‘As the Industry looks forward to next year and the key January sales period the outlook remains strong for another good year in 2017,’ said Alan Nolan, the society’s director general. The figures also show that Ireland’s top selling car makes in 2016 are Hyundai, Volkswagen, Toyota, Ford and Nissan, in that order. The Toyota C-HR was the top selling car for the month of November, but the Hyundai Tucson remains the biggest seller of the year, followed by the Volkswagen Golf, Ford Focus, Skida Octavia and Nissan Qashqai.