In October 114,426 road motor vehicle registrations were recorded, according to the statement released by Turkish Statistical Institute on Friday.

Regarding the vehicle registrations in October, cars accounted for 62.0%, followed by motorcycles 16.1%, small trucks 13.9%, tractors 5.0%, trucks 2.0%, minibus 0.5%, buses 0.4% and special purpose vehicles 0.1%

The number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 8.2% compared with the previous month

In October, the number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 29.7% and 6.4% for cars and tractors while it decreased by 80.1%, 22.6%, 21.5%, 15.4%, 11.9% and 7.7% for special purpose vehicles, motorcycles, minibuses, trucks, buses and small trucks respectively.

The number of road motor vehicles registered increased by 68.1% compared with the same month of the previous year 

In October, compared with the same month of the previous year, the number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 235.9%, 132.9%, 113.7%, 82.6%, 63.5%, 53.5% and 6.5% for special purpose vehicles, trucks, small trucks, tractors, cars, motorcycles and buses respectively while it decreased by 13.7% for minibuses.

At the end of October, the total number of road motor vehicles registered reached 23,965,229

At the end of October, cars represented 54.2%, small trucks 16.3%, motorcycles 14.6%, tractors 8.0%, trucks 3.6%, minibuses 2.1%, buses 0.9% and special purpose vehicles 0.3% of total number of road motor vehicles registered.

833,754 road motor vehicles handed over in October

Among vehicles handed over in October, cars accounted for 70.0% followed by small trucks 16.0%, motorcycles 5.8%, tractors 3.4%, trucks 2.2%, minibuses 2.0%, buses 0.5% and special purpose vehicles 0.1%.

In October, 70,934 cars were registered to the traffic 

In terms of the distribution of trademarks for the new registered cars in October, Renault recorded 15.3%, Fiat 14.5%, Volkswagen 10.9%, Toyota 7.8%, Opel 5.3%, Hyundai 4.7%, Skoda 4.6%, Ford 4.3%, Peugeot 3.8%, Citroen 3.3%, Audi 3.1%, Nissan 3.0%, Honda 3.0%, Dacia 2.8%, Kia 2.5%, BMW 2.4%, Mercedes-Benz 2.2%, Seat 1.5%, Volvo 1.3%, Jeep 0.8% and the other trademarks 2.8% of the total. 

In the period of January-October 850,969 road motor vehicles were registered

In January-October period compared to the same period of previous year, the number of registered vehicles increased by 57.5% and became 850,969, while the number of withdrawn road motor vehicles decreased by 84.4% and became 39,571. Hence, in the period of January-October the increase in motor vehicles registered became 811,398.

In the period of January-October the ratio of cars registered using gasoline was 50.0%

Among 480,472 cars registered in the period of January-October, the share of gasoline-fuelled cars was 50.0% followed by diesel-fuelled cars with 41.2%, LPG-fuelled cars with 5.5% and electric or

hybrid cars with 3.3%. At the end of October, among 12 million 978 thousand 106 registered cars, the share of diesel-fuelled cars was 38.3% followed by LPG-fuelled cars with 36.9% and gasoline-fuelled cars with 24.4%. The share of electric or hybrid cars was 0.2% and the cars with unknown fuel type was 0.3%. 

Most frequent engine size was 1401-1500 for registered cars in the period of January-October

Within 480 thousand 472 cars registered to traffic in January-October period, 30.9% had 1401-1500, 24.5% of them had engine size 1501-1600, 23.4% had 1300 or less, 14.6% had 1301-1400, 5.7% had 1601-2000, 0.8% had 2001 and above.

In the period of January-October 229,490 of cars registered were white

Within 480,472 cars registered to traffic in January-October period, 47.8% of them were white, 26.5% were grey, 7.3% were blue, 7.0% were red, 6.9% were black, 1.6% were orange, 1.3% were brown, 0.7% were yellow, 0.2% were green and 0.7% were in other colors. (ILKHA)