New vehicle registrations on the rise again after tough pandemic year
Reporter:
);
The Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) today released their official new vehicle statistics on new car registrations and the results come as welcome news the motor industry.
To present a more accurate picture of the new vehicle registrations, it is important to compare registrations totals with the same period in 2019 (pre-COVID) when businesses were fully operational.
55,207 new cars were registered to date in 2021 compared to 50,138 for the same period in 2020 but figures still have a way to climb to reach pre-pandemic levels - 73,030 in 2019.
Light Commercials Vehicles (LCV) saw an increase of 2,385 registrations compared to April last year 231 and 1,798 for the same month in 2019.