by Brian Byrne. Figures for car sales during March show a 6.7 percent increase of units sold over the same month last year, and the market for the first three months is 15.1 percent up on the same period in 2004.
Some 24,751 passenger cars were sold in March, bringing the first-quarter total to 87,982.
Toyota led the March figures with 3,385 units, followed by Ford with 3,229, Opel with 2,130 and Nissan with 2,052.
The Light Commercial Vehicles market for March is up by 18.9 percent at 4,421 units, bringing the year-to-date total to 15,951 and an overall 25.7 percent improvement.
