OREANDA-NEWS. September 11, 2015. Automotive market in Russia, which was in the fifth place in the previous months among European countries, by the results of August has become the second largest in Europe, after only Germany. Analysts of the agency "AUTOSTAT" remarked, the Russian car market was able to reach second place in the "European championship" due to Europe's traditional summer drop in demand for cars.

According to data from the agency "AUTOSTAT" in the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of Europe, a leader by vehicle sales in August is still Germany, where it was sold 226,314 vehicles (+ 6.2%). According to the German Association of Automotive Industry (VDA), orders for new vehicles last month rose by 4%, by reflecting the positive development of the market. If, however, during the consideration of the car market in Europe we take into account Russia, then our country moved up to the second place of the European ranking. According to preliminary estimates of the agency "AUTOSTAT", sales of passenger cars in the last month were approximately 129 500 units (excluding LCV). Third place is kept by France, whose dealers have sold 92,052 cars (+ 10%). The fourth result was shown by UK - 79,060 sold vehicles (+ 9.6%). This time Italy closes the "top five" leaders with the index of 59,203 sold vehicles (+ 10.6%). According to the Italian Association of Automobile Manufacturers (ANFIA), the country's auto market has kept a double-digit sales growth, despite the fact that in August demand traditionally falls due to the summer holidays. However, in quantitative terms, the volumes of car sales in August in Italy remained at the level of 1964. We also add that due to the action of the program to subsidize the purchase of new fuel-efficient cars Spanish car market has shown the greatest growth among the European leaders - by 23.3% to 55,918 vehicles.