The number of road motor vehicle registrations in Türkiye increased by 22% in June compared to the previous month, with motorcycles and passenger cars accounting for the majority of new registrations, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) announced in a statement on Friday.

A total of 194,740 road motor vehicles were registered during the month. Motorcycles represented the largest share of new registrations at 49.4%, followed by passenger cars at 37.8%. Small trucks accounted for 8.5%, while tractors made up 1.7%, trucks 1.5%, minibuses 0.7%, buses 0.3%, and special-purpose vehicles 0.1%.

Monthly registrations climb sharply

Compared with May, vehicle registrations increased by 22% overall.

The strongest monthly growth was recorded in special-purpose vehicles, which surged 191%, followed by motorcycles, up 62.1%, and minibuses, which rose 53.2%. Registrations of tractors increased 20.9%, while trucks climbed 12.7%.

In contrast, registrations declined for several categories, including buses (-14.5%), small trucks (-5.8%), and passenger cars (-2.9%).

Annual increase driven by commercial vehicles

Compared with June of last year, total vehicle registrations rose 2.9%.

Special-purpose vehicles posted the highest annual increase at 140.5%, followed by buses (26.2%), minibuses (26.0%), trucks (21.8%), small trucks (11.8%), motorcycles (4.2%), and cars (1.8%).

The only category to record a year-on-year decline was tractors, with registrations falling 43.4%.

Vehicle fleet exceeds 34.5 million

As of the end of June, the total number of registered road motor vehicles in Türkiye reached 34,545,132.

Passenger cars accounted for 51.7% of the country's vehicle fleet, followed by motorcycles at 21.5%, small trucks at 14.4%, tractors at 6.8%, trucks at 3.1%, minibuses at 1.6%, buses at 0.6%, and special-purpose vehicles at 0.3%.

Nearly 942,000 vehicles change hands

A total of 941,964 vehicles were transferred during June.

Passenger cars made up 64.6% of all ownership transfers, followed by small trucks (14.4%), motorcycles (13.7%), tractors (3.2%), trucks (2.0%), minibuses (1.5%), buses (0.4%), and special-purpose vehicles (0.2%).

Renault leads new passenger car registrations

A total of 73,665 passenger cars were newly registered in June.

French automaker Renault remained the market leader with 20.5% of new registrations. It was followed by Hyundai (7.1%), Volkswagen (6.7%), Fiat (6.5%), Toyota (5.2%), Peugeot (5.0%), Mercedes-Benz (4.1%), Skoda (3.9%), Chery (3.6%), Omoda (3.2%), Citroen (3.1%), BMW (2.8%), TOGG (2.8%), Opel (2.7%), Kia (2.5%), Jaecoo (2.2%), Volvo (2.0%), Nissan (2.0%), Mini (1.9%), and Audi (1.7%). Other brands collectively accounted for 10.5% of registrations.

Registrations decline in first half of 2026

During the January-June period, 962,739 vehicles were registered, representing an 11.7% decline compared with the same period last year.

Meanwhile, 29,212 vehicles were withdrawn from traffic, marking a 22.7% increase year-on-year. As a result, the country's net increase in registered vehicles during the first six months of the year stood at 933,527.

Gasoline remains dominant, electric and hybrid cars gain ground

Among the 456,050 passenger cars registered between January and June, gasoline-powered vehicles accounted for 41.8% of the total.

Hybrid vehicles represented 31.6%, while electric vehicles accounted for 17.8%. Diesel-powered cars made up 7.8%, and LPG-powered vehicles represented 1.0%.

However, within Türkiye's total passenger car fleet of 17.87 million vehicles, diesel cars remained the largest segment at 32.1%, followed by gasoline vehicles (31.0%) and LPG-powered cars (29.4%). Hybrid vehicles accounted for 4.7%, electric vehicles 2.5%, while cars with unknown fuel types represented 0.2%.

Smaller engines and grey cars remain the top choice

The most popular engine size among newly registered cars in the first half of the year was 1,300cc or below, accounting for 32.6% of registrations.

In terms of color preferences, grey remained the most popular choice, representing 41.8% of newly registered passenger cars. It was followed by white (25.7%), black (11.9%), blue (9.8%), green (5.6%), red (3.2%), brown (1.3%), while orange and yellow each accounted for 0.3%, with other colors making up the remaining 0.1%. (ILKHA)