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JATO Dynamics: growth slowdown in Euro auto sales in March; SUVs still lead

Green Car Congress

March 2016 was another positive month for European new car registrations, ending a strong Q1 which saw sales of 3.93 B-Segment (subcompact cars) and MPVs suffered most, posting the highest market share loss. million units, up by 8.1% over the first three months of 2015, according to JATO Dynamics.

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

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Portuguese drivers are the greenest in Europe when it comes to buying cars with an average CO2 rate of 138g/km (eg. EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them.

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