Published: 8 January 2018
In December 2017 the number of new passenger cars registered was 8,068
In December 2017 a total of 15,216 new motor vehicles were registered, of which 9,490 were automobiles. First registrations increased by 19.2 per cent from the corresponding month of the previous year. In December the number of new passenger cars registered was 8,068, which was 1.0 per cent down from the year before. The share of new diesel-driven passenger cars was 28.6 per cent. These data are based on the Vehicular and Driver Data Register of the Finnish Transport Safety Agency and they have been produced by Statistics Finland. The numbers are exclusive of the vehicles on the Åland Islands.
First registrations of passenger cars
![First registrations of passenger cars](merek_2017_12_2018-01-08_tie_001_en_001.png)
In the January to December period of 2017 a total of 192,991 vehicles were first registered. Compared to the year before, there was an increase of 4.0 per cent. The number of passenger cars first registered in the January to December period was 118,583, which is 0.4 per cent down from the year before. The most common passenger car makes first registered in the January to December period were Toyota, Volkswagen and Skoda.
Source: Statistics on first registrations 2017. Statistics Finland, Finnish Transport Safety Agency
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Updated 8.1.2018
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF):
First registrations of motor vehicles [e-publication].
ISSN=2342-365X. December 2017. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 17.8.2024].
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