EU commercial vehicle sales fell 8.4% in December
New commercial vehicle registrations in the European Union fell 8.4% to 155,963 units in December, followed by 14.7% decline in November.
This marks the six consecutive months of decline mainly due to a drop in new van sales.
The regionâs four major markets all posted drops, with the sharpest seen in Spain -31.9%.

For FY2021, commercial vehicle registrations up 9.6% to 1.88M units.
With the exception of 2.8% decline in Spain, all major EU markets posted growth last year. Italy saw the highest percentage gain +15.5% followed by France +7.8%, while registrations increased by only a modest 0.6% in Germany.

New light commercial vehicles registrations fell 12.8% to 126,794 units for the month but for the year 1.6M light commercial vehicles were registered across the EU with Y/Y growth of 8.5%.

New heavy commercial vehicles registrations rose 23.5% to 20,784 units.
Registrations of new medium and heavy commercial vehicles grew 19.1% to 25,314 units.
Registrations of new medium and heavy buses & coaches grew 6.8% to 3.855 units for the month. Double-digit increases were recorded in three of the regionâs four key markets: Italy +40.7%, France +38.7% and Germany +26.6% whereas Spain suffered a significant decline -36.4% during the last month of the year.
Twelve months commercial vehicle registration trend:

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