Road Motor Vehicles, May 2020 in Turkey
Regarding the vehicle registrations in May, cars accounted for 43.7%, followed by motorcycles 37.4%, small trucks 8.8%, tractors 7.4%, trucks 1.4%, minibus 0.7%, bus 0.5% and special purpose vehicles 0.1%.
The number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 29.6% compared with the previous month
In May, the number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 71.1%, 30.6%, 15.7%, 3.5%, 2.6% for motorcycles, tractors, cars, small trucks and minibuses while it decreased by 73.3%, 25.5% and 0.4% for special purpose vehicles, trucks and buses respectively.
The number of road motor vehicles registered decreased by 9.8% compared with the same month of the previous year
In May, compared with the same month of the previous year, the number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 43.8% and 3.5% for tractors and trucks, while it decreased by 90.2%, 29.8%, 26.8%, 22.5%, 16.2% and 0.4% for special purpose vehicles, small trucks, minibuses, buses, cars and motorcycles respectively.
At the end of May, the total number of road motor vehicles registered reached 23 million 448 thousand 381
At the end of May, cars represented 54.1%, small trucks 16.4%, motorcycles 14.4%, tractors 8.2%, trucks 3.6%, minibuses 2.1%, buses 0.9% and special purpose vehicles 0.3% of total number of road motor vehicles registered.
561 thousand 375 road motor vehicles handed over in May
Among vehicles handed over(1) in May, cars accounted for 68.0% followed by small trucks 16.1%, motorcycles 7.8%, tractors 3.3%, trucks 2.6%, minibuses 1.7%, buses 0.4% and special purpose vehicles 0.1%.
In May, 22 thousand 748 cars were registered to the traffic
In terms of the distribution of trademarks for the new registered cars in May, Renault recorded 19.1%, Peugeot 15.2%, Opel 9.0%, Fiat recorded 9.0%, Citroen 6.3%, Volkswagen 5.3%, Honda 5.0%, Mercedes-Benz 4.5%, Hyundai 3.6%, Dacia 3.1%, Ford 2.8%, Toyota 2.3%, Seat 2.2%, Kia 2.1%, Volvo 2.1%, Audi 1.6%, Nissan 1.2%, Land Rover 1.1%, BMW 1.0%, Skoda 0.9% and the other trademarks 2.7% of the total.
In the period of January-May total road motor vehicles in traffic increased by 311 thousand 998
In January-May period compared to the same period of previous year, the number of registered vehicles increased by 15.0% and became 311 thousand 998, while the number of withdrawn road motor vehicles decreased by 80.9% and became 18 thousand 702. Hence, in the period of January-May the increase in motor vehicles registered became 293 thousand 296.
In the period of January-May the ratio of cars registered using gasoline was 45.5%
Among 183 thousand 762 cars registered in the period of January-May, the share gasoline-fuelled cars was 45.5% followed by diesel-fuelled cars with 45.1%, LPG-fuelled cars with 6.4% and electric or hybrid cars with 3.0%. At the end of May, among 12 million 638 thousand 707 registered cars, the share of diesel-fuelled cars was 38.3% followed by LPG-fuelled cars with 37.2% and gasoline-fuelled cars with 24.1%. The share of electric or hybrid cars was 0.2% and the cars with unknown(2) fuel type was 0.3%.
Most frequent engine size was 1401-1500 for registered cars in the period of January-May
Within 183 thousand 762 cars registered to traffic in January-May period, 30.1% had 1401-1500, 27.2% of them had engine size 1501-1600, 22.3% had 1300 or less, 13.8% had 1301-1400, 5.4% had 1601-2000, 1.0% had 2001 and above.
In the period of January-May 92 thousand 940 of cars registered were white
Within 183 thousand 762 cars registered to traffic in January-May period, 50.6% of them were white, 24.7% were grey, 7.1% were black, 6.6% were red, 6.5% were blue, 1.8% were orange, 1.3% were brown, 0.7% were yellow, 0.2% were green and 0.5% were in other colours.
The next release on this subject will be on 29 July, 2020.
EXPLANATIONS
(1) Road motor vehicles handed over are that the owners of them had changed through the notaries for one time or more.
(2) Unknown includes the cars for which the type of fuel field in the license was entered incorrectly or left blank.
Source: TurkStat
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