72,072 road motor vehicle registrations recorded in Turkey
72,072 road motor vehicle registrations were recorded in Turkey in March, Turkish Statistical Institute said in a statement on Thursday.
According to the statement, regarding the vehicle registrations in March, cars accounted for 60.1%, followed by motorcycles 16.7%, small trucks 13.4%, tractors 5.8%, trucks 2.0%, minibus 1.1%, bus 0.7% and special purpose vehicles 0.2%.
The number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 35.6% compared with the previous month
In March, the number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 48.8%, 35.1%, 34.4%, 34.3%, 31.1% and 19.0% for motorcycles, cars, tractors, minibuses, small trucks and trucks respectively, while it decreased by 10.7% and 7.1% for special purpose vehicles and buses.
The number of road motor vehicles registered increased by 22.8% compared with the same month of the previous year
In March, compared with the same month of the previous year, the number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 78.9%, 63.0%, 32.4%, 30.3%, 28.2% and 10.5% for tractors, trucks, cars, buses, small trucks and minibuses respectively, while it decreased by 27.3% and 13.7% for special purpose vehicles and motorcycles.
At the end of March, the total number of road motor vehicles registered reached 23,361,022
At the end of March, cars represented 54.1%, small trucks 16.4%, motorcycles 14.4%, tractors 8.2%, trucks 3.6%, minibuses 2.1%, buses 0.9% and special purpose vehicles 0.3% of total number of road motor vehicles registered.
720,025 road motor vehicles handed over in March
Among vehicles handed over (1) in March, cars accounted for 69.7% followed by small trucks 17.0%, motorcycles 4.8%, tractors 3.5%, trucks 2.4%, minibuses 2.0%, buses 0.5% and special purpose vehicles 0.1%.
In the period of January-March total road motor vehicles in traffic increased by 219,747
In January-March period compared to the same period of previous year, the number of registered vehicles increased by 38.0% and became 219 thousand 747 while the number of withdrawn road motor vehicles decreased by 73.5% and became 13 thousand 956. Hence, the increase in motor vehicles registered became 205 thousand 791.
In the period of January-March the ratio of cars registered using diesel was 45.5%
Among 141 thousand 354 cars registered in the period of January-March, the share of diesel-fueled cars was 45.5% followed by gasoline-fueled cars with 44.1%, LPG-fueled cars with 7.3% and electric or hybrid cars with 3.1%. At the end of March, among 12 million 641 thousand 630 registered cars, the share of diesel-fueled cars was 38.2% followed by LPG-fueled cars with 37.2% and gasoline-fueled cars with 24.1%. The share of electric or hybrid cars was 0.2% and the cars with unknown (2) fuel type was 0.3%.
Most frequent engine size was 1401-1500 for registered cars in the period of January-March
Within 141 thousand 354 cars registered to traffic in January-March period, 30.1% had 1401-1500, 28.6% of them had engine size 1501-1600, 20.4% had 1300 or less, 14.6% had 1301-1400, 5.3% had 1601-2000, 1.0% had 2001 and above.
In the period of January-March 73,846 of cars registered were white
Within 141 thousand 354 cars registered to traffic in January-March period, 52.2% of them were white, 23.9% were grey, 6.6% were red, 6.4% were black, 6.2% were blue, 1.7% were orange, 1.4% were brown, 0.9% were yellow, 0.2% were green and 0.3% were in other colors. (ILKHA)