Strong year for EU truck sales

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) reports that registrations of new commercial vehicles grew last year across all segments, with a strong month of December helping the overall figure to its third consecutive year of growth.

In December 2015, EU demand for new commercial vehicles registered a strong increase (+14.8%), totalling 191,826 units over the month and marking one year of consecutive growth. Growth was significantly sustained across all commercial vehicle segments. Italy (+23.2%), Spain (+23.0%), the UK (+20.3%) ended the year extremely strongly by posting double digit percentage gains in December, followed by France (+9.4%) and Germany (+8.7%).

In 2015, the EU market showed a consistent uplift (+12.4%) and rose for the third year in a row, exceeding two million commercial vehicles registered (2,079,322). During the year, Spain (+36.4%) showed the most significant increase, followed by the UK (+16.7%), Italy (+13.2%), Germany (+4.3%) and France (+3.1%).

LCVs up to 3.5 tonnes
In 2015, 1,713,850 new vans were registered in the EU (+11.6%). All major markets saw their demand for vans increase over the year, in particular Spain (+36.1%), the UK (+15.6%) and Italy (+12.4%).

Heavy-duty over 16 tonnes
In 2015, the new heavy truck market in the EU was up by 19.4%, reaching 260,135 units. Spain (+38.7%), the UK (+32.1%), Italy (+25.3%), France (+12.7%) and Germany (+5.3%) saw demand for heavy trucks increase, supporting the overall upturn in the region. Noteworthy are the positive contributions from the Netherlands (+34.4%) and Poland (+31.7%).

Medium and heavy-duty over 3.5 tonnes
In 2015, 325,689 new trucks (+16.2%) were registered in the EU. Looking at the five major markets, Spain (+38.4%), the UK (+24.5%), Italy (+21.3%) and France (+10.3%) posted the highest increases over the year.