OREANDA-NEWS. Automotive market of Russia, which in August became the second largest in Europe, by the results of last month, dropped to the fifth place in the European Championship.

According to data, received by the agency "AUTOSTAT" in the national associations of European car manufacturers, the leader by car sales in September was the UK, where it was sold 469,696 vehicles (+ 1.6%). As it was noted by the British Society of Motor Manufacturers and dealers (SMMT), in the first month of autumn there is traditionally a surge in sales, but the current September set an absolute record. Germany went down to the second place, whose result was 298,002 sold cars (+ 9.4%). Third place is kept by France with indicator of 168827 sold cars (+ 2.5%). The next is Italy, whose dealers have sold 153,617 cars (+ 17.4%). As noted in the Italian Association of Automobile Manufacturers (ANFIA), it is the best figure for September since 2010, therewith it is recorded double-digit sales growth, despite the fact that the positive dynamics is kept for more than two years. If, however, during the considering of the European automotive market we take into account Russia, our country has fallen to the fifth place of the European ranking.

According to preliminary estimates of "AUTOSTAT" agency, sales of passenger cars in the last month were about 115.5 thousand units (excluding LCV). We also add that due to the action of stimulating program to subsidize the purchase of new fuel-efficient cars Spanish car market continues to show the growth - in September by 13.9% to 79,591 cars.