Motor vehicle

Road motor vehicle registrations in Turkey rose 42.8% year-on-year in February, the country's statistical authority said on March 23. 

A total of 72,902 first- and second-hand vehicles were registered last month, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK).

Compared to the previous month, motor vehicle registration were down by 35.3%.

The number of road motor vehicle registrations in Turkey increased 24 percent year-on-year in January, the country's statistics authority revealed on Feb. 23.

A total of 117,313 first- and second-hand vehicles were registered last month, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK).

Compared to the previous month, motor vehicle registration surged by 37.5 percent.

In Turkey, a total of 40,171 first- and second-hand vehicles were registered in April, the country's statistics authority revealed on May 29. 

April's figure was down 26.1% year-on-year and it marked a 44.3% drop compared to the previous month due to the coronavirus containment measures, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat).

The number of motor vehicle registrations in Turkey jumped 42.2 percent year-on-year to 94,540 vehicles in January, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) announced on Feb. 28.

"At the end of January, the total number of road motor vehicles registered reached 23.2 million," TÜİK said.

Motor vehicle registrations in Turkey rose by 13.2 percent in December 2019 year-on-year, the nation's statistical authority said on Jan. 30.

More than 200 million were the registered motor vehicles in China by the end of 2019, an 8.83% year-on-year increase, the Ministry of Public Security reported.

The number of electric cars reached 3.81 million last year, the ministry said, adding that for the second consecutive year it has exceeded the 1 million mark.

The number of motor vehicles registered in Turkey was up 16% in September compared to the same month last year, reaching over 52,456, the country's statistics authority said on Nov. 5.

Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) reported on Aug. 1 a total of 536,916 road motor vehicles were registered in the first half of this year.

Greece has one of the oldest vehicle fleets in the European Union in all categories  - passenger cars, light trucks and busses - with the average age reaching 13.5 years in 2015, according to data on that year from the  European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA).

Last year, for every new vehicle purchased five were second hand, more than ten years old as well, according to the Traffic Police, according to the daily Dnevnik. Total fleet in the country has grown by 306,421 vehicles, vans, minibuses, trucks, buses and motorcycles. Among them the brand new are 39 094. Manufactured more than ten years ago are almost 200 thousand motor vehicles.