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Number of vehicles used in Turkey increases

Türkiye Materials 4 September 2019 12:10 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 4

By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:

The number of vehicles used in Turkey increased by 61.30 percent by the end of July 2019 (compared to the same month of 2018) and amounted to 23.086 million, Trend reports referring to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK).

Cars had a share of 54.1 percent for the aforementioned period, followed by vans and trucks with a share of 16.4 percent, motorcycles (14.3 percent), tractors (8.2 percent), and other vehicles (7 percent).

It was also reported that 20 percent of the vehicles used belonged to the Renault brand, along with by Fiat (14.5 percent), Volkswagen (9.3 percent), Peugeot (5.6 percent), Honda (5.6 percent), and other car brands (46.4 percent).

Turkey is the sixth largest car manufacturer in Europe. The country is assembling cars of the Ford, FIAT, Renault, Toyota, Honda, Opel, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz and MAN brands. In addition, the country produces buses of such local brands as BMC, Temsa and Otokar.

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