{"id":1101,"date":"2007-09-05T09:26:49","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T09:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2007\/09\/05\/french-automobi\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T13:57:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:57:48","slug":"french-automobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2007\/09\/05\/french-automobi\/","title":{"rendered":"French Automobile Market rose by 1.1 % in  August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/ventes_voitures_2501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ventes_voitures_250\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/ventes_voitures_250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\"  style=\"float: left;margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a><br \/> After a spectacular recovery of the French automobile market in July thanks to a 21% increase, the month of August stabilised with 139,640 registrations recorded. This 1.1% more than the previous year over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>However a detailed analysis of the statistics shows a slightly different situation. The passenger car market fell by 2.4% with 111,260 registrations compared to August 2006 while the market for light commercial vehicles rose by a spectacular 17.1% with 28,380 registrations. August is generally not a very active market due to the holiday period.<\/p>\n<p>For the first eight months of 2007, the new passenger car registrations reached 1,375,208 cars. This is 0.6% less than last year compared to the same period. With 307 447 registrations recorded from January to August 2007, the market for light commercial vehicles increased by 5.4 %.<\/p>\n<p>French carmakers have lost their majority market share to imported brands with only 46% of market share. However on the first eight months, they still save the face with a 52% market share. Renault Group increased its sales by 2% thanks to Dacia. The sales jumped from 1,031 in August 2006 to 2,407 in August 2007 while Renault fell by 4%. On the other hand, PSA fell sharply by 13.4%. Peugeot sales decreased by 13.4% with 29,600 registrations. Citro\u00ebn recorded the biggest fall with -17.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Among the imported brands, BMW is the biggest winner. It progressed by 34.3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a spectacular recovery of the French automobile market in July thanks to a 21% increase, the month of August stabilised with 139,640 registrations recorded. This 1.1% more than the previous year over the same period. However a detailed analysis of the statistics shows a slightly different situation. 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