The French market for the automobile in 2011

Despite very favorable state devices and car insurance with a relatively moderate cost, the French auto market has been a sad year 2010. Now, the question arises as to the reality of the market in 2011 even though the scrapping has been removed and that car insurance will be increased gradually. In this regard, it behooves us to emphasize the impact of the cost of auto insurance home builders. Indeed, a very expensive automobile insurance does not encourage the purchase of vehicles grows and consumers towards smaller-scale cars. Therefore the 12 months of 2010, with 2,251,736 registrations, the French market for passenger cars was down 2.2% unadjusted and 3.0% at comparable number of working days compared to the same period of 2009 (254 days of January to December 2010 and 252 days from January to December 2009).

Thus, with 417,674 registrations from January to December 2010, the French market for new light commercial vehicles (under 5.1 tonnes) were up 11.7% unadjusted and 10.8% in comparable number of working days compared to the same period of 2009. In addition, 2,669,410 new light vehicles (passenger cars and light commercial vehicles under 5.1 tons) were registered during the first twelve months of 2010, down slightly from 0.3% in raw data and 1.0% and comparable number of working days over the same period of 2009.Finally with 34,224 registrations from January to December 2010, the French market for commercial vehicles over 5 tons is down 3.7% over the same period of 2009. However, the automotive sector retains a degree of confidence to the extent that the effects of the crisis now seem behind us.