Road Motor Vehicles, May 2019

At the end of May, the total number of road motor vehicles registered reached 23 039 551The total number of road motor vehicles registered to the traffic reached 23 million 39 thousand 551 by the end of May. Within the total, cars represented 54.2%, followed by small trucks 16.4%, motorcycles 14.2%, tractors 8.2%, trucks 3.7%, minibuses 2.1%, buses 0.9% and special purpose vehicles 0.3%.

In May, 57 757 road motor vehicle registrations were recorded

Within 57 thousand 757 vehicle registrations in May, cars accounted for 47%, followed by motorcycles 33.9%, small trucks 11.3% and tractors 4.6%. Minibuses, buses, trucks and special purpose vehicles constituted 3.2% of new registrations.

The number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 6.3% compared with the previous month

In May, the number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 6.3% compared with the previous month. Minibuses, buses, small trucks, motorcycles and tractors increased by 26.3%, 8%, 6.1%, 41.9% and 8.2% respectively. Cars, trucks and special purpose vehicles decreased by 9.3%, 24.2% and 5.2%.

The number of road motor vehicles registered decreased by 42.5% compared with the same month of the previous year  

In May, the number of road motor vehicle registrations decreased by 42.5% compared with the same month of the previous year. Cars, minibuses, buses, small trucks, trucks, motorcycles and tractors decreased by 51.3%, 66.8%, 38%, 55.9%, 68.8%, 4.4% and 45.5% respectively. Special purpose vehicles increased by 165.4%.

In the period of January-May, the total number of road motor vehicles in traffic increased by 173 630

While 97 thousand 668 road motor vehicles were withdrawn, 271 thousand 298 road motor vehicles were added in January-May period. Hence, the total number of road motor vehicles registered increased by 173 thousand 630.

721 196 road motor vehicles handed over in May

Among 721 thousand 196 vehicles handed over⁽¹⁾, cars accounted for 71.9% followed by small trucks 15.5%, motorcycles 5.7% and tractors 2.5%. Minibuses, buses, trucks and special purpose vehicles constituted 4.4% of the handed over motor vehicles in May.

The ratio of cars registered using LPG was 37.7%

At the end of May, among 12 million 482 thousand 475 registered cars, the share of LPG-fuelled cars was 37.7% followed by diesel-fuelled cars with 37.3% and gasoline-fuelled cars with 24.6%. The share of electric or hybrid cars is 0.1% and the cars with unknown⁽²⁾ fuel type was 0.3%.

In May, 27 136 cars were registered to the traffic

In terms of the distribution of trademarks for the 27 thousand 136 new registered cars in May, Fiat 13.9%, Renault recorded 13.2%, Toyota 9.9%, Volkswagen 7.9%, Hyundai 6.6%, Peugeot 6.6%, Honda 6.5%, Mercedes-Benz 4.5%, Dacia 3.8%, Opel 3.4% and the other trademarks 23.9% of the total.

Most frequent engine size was 1501-1600 for registered cars

Within 152 thousand 646 cars registered to traffic in January-May period, 38.1% of them had engine size 1501-1600, 27.3% had 1401-1500, 15.8% had 1301-1400, 11.7% had 1300 or less, 5.9% had 1601-2000, 1.2% had 2001 and above engine size.

Most frequent colour was white for registered cars

Within 152 thousand 646 cars registered to traffic in January-May period, 52.8% of them were white, 23.9% were grey, 7.2% were black, 5.6% were red and 10.5% were in other colours.

The next release on this subject will be on August 2, 2019. 
                                                                                                                                                           

EXPLANATIONS

(1) Road motor vehicles handed over are that the owners of them had changed through the notaries for one time or more.

(2) Unknown includes the cars for which the type of fuel field in the license was entered incorrectly or left blank.