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[Deutsche Welle]
Germany's car market shrank in August compared with the same month a year ago, ending of almost a year of booming sales. But the country's auto makers offset the losses with rising overseas exports.
The German auto market, which is Europe's biggest, contracted by 4.7 percent in August, as Germans bought 10,645 fewer cars than in the same month of 2011, the Association of International Motor Vehicle Manufacturers (VDIK) said Tuesday. New car registrations in Germany came in at 226,500 last month, increasing total sales to 2.1 million cars so far this year. German car manufacturers felt the impact of shrinking markets in Europe, but countered the problem with rising overseas' sales, according to August sales figures released by the Association of the German Automobile Industry (VDA) Tuesday.
The figure was 0.6 percent less than the number of cars sold in the first eight months of 2011. According to VDIK, it indicated that Europe's car slump, notably in the markets of crisis-stricken southern Europe, was spreading to Germany.
Lire : dw.de
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