New car registrations: minus 10.8%
In February 2019, the number of new passenger car registrations (23,640 vehicles) fell by 10.8% compared to February 2018, according to Statistics Austria.

New car registrations: minus 10.8%
By 7.4% for gasoline-powered cars (share: 54.8%) and by 19.0% for diesel-powered cars (share: 39.0%). However, there were more new registrations of cars with electric drives (+55.3%; share: 2.9%). The car brands with the most new registrations were VW (share: 18.8%), Skoda (share: 9.3%) and Seat (share: 6.9%). Among the top 10 car brands, only the BMW brand recorded growth (+3.5% compared to February 2018). The largest declines were reported for the brands Audi (-42.0%), Opel (-24.8%) and Mercedes (-15.0%).