Comments on: Powered by Abwrackprämie: Germany’s June Sales Up 40 Percent

By: sutski

sutski — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:32:57 +0000

Thanks Bertel, pity it stops in Dec 2007 though !!

Cheers, sutski

By: Bertel Schmitt

Bertel Schmitt — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:28:15 +0000

Slateslate:

That’s the normal (and always predictable) German seasonality. New cars are released in spring, and to a lesser degree in fall. Are they released because of the seasonality, or is the seasonality because the cars are released? I don’t know. It always has been that way.

Workshop throughput follows a similar trend.

By: kowsnofskia

kowsnofskia — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:41:20 +0000

So how many cars did Germany export during June?

That’s where the real story is.

By: slateslate

slateslate — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:46:21 +0000

per the chart…http://www.kba.de/DE/Presse/PressemitteilungenStatistiken/2001-2008/2008/Fahrzeugzulassungen/n__12__08__grafik__jahresverlauf__gif,property=default.gif

wonder why German car sales seasonally jump in March…..is this when the German car model year starts? Income tax refunds?

By: Bertel Schmitt

Bertel Schmitt — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:01:00 +0000

Sutski:

Ask, and you shall receive.

By: MikeyDee

MikeyDee — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:17:40 +0000

All in all, Germany expects to sell anywhere between 3.6 and 3.8 new cars this year, compared with 3m in 2008.

Four cars for the whole country for 2009 is not too good, LOL.

By: sutski

sutski — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:53:36 +0000

Hows about a nice colourful bar chart showing monthly sales in months over the last 3ish years so we get a feel for it visually ?

40% difference tells me nothing as I don’t know how good/bad 2008 was ??

Thanks if you can!