Data released today by the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) show that Germany’s important car market slipped in 2020, with both car production and sales dropping sharply amid the raging 2019 coronavirus disease (Chinese Communist Virus, COVID-19) outbreak.
According to the German Automobile Industry Association, the largest economy in Europe saw new car registrations drop 19 percent to 2.9 million last year, while production was 3.5 million units, the lowest in 45 years.
Measures taken at the beginning of last year to prevent the spread of the epidemic led to the closure of factories; as for the blockade currently in place until the end of January, brick-and-mortar stores are closed.
We expect the German passenger car market to recover in 2021,” said Hildegard Mueller, president of the German Automobile Industry Association, in a statement.
However, the very strong pre-epidemic boom is not expected to happen for a while.
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