As of the end of August, the total number of motor vehicles registered reached 20,729,666 units in Turkey, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat).
The total number of road motor vehicles registered to the traffic reached 20 million 729 thousand 666 by the end of August. Within the total, cars represented 53.4%, followed by small trucks 16.3%, motorcycles 14.4%, tractors 8.4%, trucks 4%, minibuses 2.2%, buses 1.1% and special purpose vehicles 0.2%. In August, 95,558 motor vehicle registrations were recorded.
Within 95 thousand 558 vehicle registrations in August, cars accounted for 57.1%, followed by motorcycles 17%, small trucks 16.4% and tractors 5.7%. Minibuses, buses, trucks and special purpose vehicles constituted 3.8% of new registrations. The number of motor vehicles registrations up 5.3% over previous month In August, the number of road motor vehicle registrations increased by 5.3% compared with July. Minibuses, buses, small trucks, motorcycles and tractors increased by 19.3%, 33.5%, 6.4%, 17.2% and 35.5%. Cars, trucks, special purpose vehicles decreased by 0.1%, 7.5% and 19.6% respectively. The number of motor vehicles registered decreased by 12.5% compared with the same month of the previous year In August, the number of road motor vehicle registrations decreased by 12.5% compared with the same month of the previous year. Cars, minibuses, buses, small trucks, trucks, motorcycles and special purpose vehicles decreased by 13.2%, 52.2%, 25.7%, 1.4%, 38.8%, 14,5% and 22.2% respectively. Tractors increased by 2.2%. In the period of January-August, the total number of road motor vehicles in traffic increased by 735,194 While the number of 70 thousand 309 road motor vehicles was withdrawn, 805 thousand 503 road motor vehicles were added in January-August period. Hence, the total number of road motor vehicles registered increased by 735 thousand 194. 589,587 road motor vehicles handed over in August Among 589 thousand 587 vehicles handed over, cars accounted for 70.2% followed by small trucks 15.4%, motorcycles 6% and tractors 3%. Minibuses, buses, trucks and special purpose vehicles constituted 5.4% of the handed over motor vehicles in August.
The ratio of cars registered using LPG was 39.6% At the end of August, among 11 million 64 thousand 655 registered cars, the share of LPG-fuelled cars was 39.6%mfollowed by diesel-fuelled cars with 33% and gasoline-fuelled cars with 27%. The ratio of the cars with unknown fuel type was 0.4% In August, 54 573 cars were registered to the traffic In terms of the distribution of trademarks for the 54 thousand 573 new registered cars in August, Volkswagen recorded 15.5%, Renault 9.2%, Opel 7.7%, Hyundai 6.5%, Toyota 6.2%, Fiat 6.2%, Dacia 6%, Ford 5.3%, Mercedes-Benz 4.7%, Skoda 4.2% and the other trademarks 28.4% of the total. Most frequent engine size was 1501-1600 for registered cars.
Within 486 thousand 382 cars registered to traffic in January- August period, 37.5% of them had engine size 1501-1600, 27.8% had 1401-1500, 15% had 1301-1400, 14.9% had 1300 or less, 3.4% had 1601-2000, 1.3% had 2001 and above engine size. Most frequent colour was white for registered cars Within 486 thousand 382 cars registered to traffic in January- August period, 62.7% of them were white, 15.3% were grey, 8.6% were black, 6.5% were red and 6.9% were in other colours.
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