For the second month in a row, The passenger car and SUV market closed positively in the province of Alicante, with 30% growth and 2,764 new units recorded.. The increase in sales is partly due to the improvement in the supply chain and vehicle production. However, it should not be forgotten that sales decreased due to bottlenecks in vehicle transportation in the last months of 2022, so it is not clear how the increase achieved in January and February will correspond to these sales in November and December. Despite this increase, enrollments are still lower than in 2020 in the pre-pandemic period. for him Accumulated for the year, there are already 5,184 units, 38% more than the previous year..
Concerning records by channel, they follow the same trend as the overall market. Last month, retail sales increased by 8.87% to a total of 1,448; companies 36.82%, 955; and leased ones 361 to 284.04%.
“February continues on the upward path we started the year on,” said Félix García, director of communications and marketing at ANFAC. Growth is always positive, but we are still a long way off compared to the data for February 2020, when we were unaware of the pandemic. 98,221 units were registered in Spain that February, so we still have a monthly market losing more than 20,000 sales by comparison. The parts supply chain continues to evolve, which is beneficial for development, but we still have logistical bottlenecks. Similarly, Prices are not helping with inflation that continues to rise, albeit more limitedly.. That’s why the industry insists that if aid for the purchase of electric vehicles is direct rather than subsidies, it will help promote the market as a whole and even more contributing to the low and zero emissions market. largely to revive a park.mobil that flirts with being 14 years old”.
Raúl Morales, FACONAUTO’s director of communications, said: “The improvement in records for February means chaining two consecutive months with a positive market. We do not foresee a change in the trend, as this is primarily due to the fact that transactions pending in December are recorded in these first months of the year.. Revitalizing the market is a priority and there is no doubt that this start of the year is encouraging, but we need to make it a trend and gradually the necessary record path for a country and economy has been saved”.
According to Tania Puche, GANVAM’s director of communications, “the recordings are once again a positive sign. Although their growth slowed down in February, they continue to rise. first of all, thanks to the rental channel, which doubled its purchases compared to the same month last year.R. However, we are still far from pre-pandemic levels, so we cannot speak of a recovery in the market despite the recovery. “Economic uncertainty and challenges in logistics and supply chain will not allow one million registered psychological barriers to be overcome a year until at least 2024.”