European Union passenger car registrations rose 5.7% in 2014, thanks to rising demand for brands like Dacia, Skoda and Nissan.
This helped the market return to growth after six consecutive years of declining sales.
An 18% rise in demand in Spain and a 9.3% increase in registrations in the UK last year took passenger car registrations to 12,550,771 deliveries in the European Union, industry association ACEA said today.
In Western Europe, which includes the EU and countries belonging to the European Free Trade Association such as Norway, Iceland and Switzerland, registrations rose 5.4% to 13,006,451 passenger cars, ACEA said.
December registrations in the European Union rose 4.7% to 951,329 vehicles, and increased by 4.9% in Western Europe to 997,238 cars, ACEA figures show.
