Datahouse data show that 28 more new passenger cars were registered in Hungary in April 2011 than in the same month of 2010. There was a minor upturn on the local new car market following sharp declines in 2009 and early 2010, but it seems that even this mild increase is has come to a halt now.
New car sales were up by a total of 3,690, a mere 0.8% year on year in April, but the number of new car registrations is still about half the April 2009 levels and about a quarter of the April 2008, pre-crisis print.
Ford, which has been almost always the top seller in the past months, slipped back to the fifth place, with sales down 40% year on year at 262 units. Opel recorded the most cars sold last month, with sales up 17% year on yearr. Skoda came in second and Volkswagen third.
