The “European Car Dealers (ECD)”, a division of CECRA has estimated that 11,578,000 passenger cars will be registered inEurope in 2013, a drop of of 8.7 per cent in comparison to last year.

This forecast is based upon the outcome of a survey which was sent to CECRA’s national member associations defending the interest of automotive dealers and repairers in Europe.

This forecast includes in total 27 EU Member States (with the exception of Cyprus and Malta for which no figures were available) as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.

For some countries, an estimation was made as CECRA does not yet cover all EU countries.
The ECD request the brands to take this forecast into consideration when setting their sales objectives in conjunction with their network all over Europe.