Turkish May automotive sales fall nearly 15 percent: Association

ISTANBUL

Turkey’s passenger car and light commercial vehicle sales fell 14.8 percent from a year earlier to 72,755 vehicles in May, Turkey’s Automotive Distributors Association (ODD) stated on June 4.

According to ODD data, some 52,277 car units were sold in May, marking a 13 percent year-on-year decrease. In the same period, the light commercial vehicle sales declined 20.9 percent to 15,528 units compared to May 2017.

In the January-May period sales decreased 4.8 percent year-on-year to 302,311 vehicles, it also said.

In the first five months of the year, some 234,645 car units were sold, a 2.1 percent year-on-year decline, the data also showed. A total of 67,666 light commercial vehicles were sold in the same period, a 13 percent decrease compared to the same period of 2017.