The monthly data on registrations of new vehicles inform about the number of new passenger cars registered by country. The source of the registrations data is the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA). Note that registrations of new passenger cars include both cars registered by private households and cars registered by businesses.
The ECB data set contains new passenger car registrations; the provision of commercial vehicle registrations was discontinued. In addition to country data received from ACEA, ECOS calculates euro area aggregates, also in seasonally adjusted form.
For details on the change in naming conventions, you can find a one-to-one correspondence between the new and old naming conventions in the STS mapping file.
Data for Euro area, Euro area countries, Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Switzerland and Norway start in 1990; registrations in Malta are not yet included. Time series for Member States which joined the EU in 2004 start in 2003, for Bulgaria and Romania in 2006, for Cyprus in 2011 and for Croatia in 2013.
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For information about the naming convention (series key dimensions and metadata), refer to the CAR underlying DSD (ECB_CAR1) maintained by the ECB.
CAR - New passenger car and commercial vehicle registrations
ACEA, the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association
European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) publishes passenger car registration data in the third week of the month after the reporting period.
Download the series catalogue containing a full list of series and associated metadata of the dataset CAR in CSV format (zipped)