Turkey’s automotive market grows 29% in October: ODD

Turkey’s passenger car and light commercial vehicle markets grew around 29% on the year in October, according to data from the Turkish Automotive Distributors Association (ODD). Total sales increased 29.17% to 83,000 units compared with 64,255 units in the same month of 2015.

Passenger car sales surged 32.93% to 63,746 vehicles from 47,954 in the last year while sales for light commercial vehicle rose 18.12% in October to 19,254 vehicles from 16,301 a year earlier.

In the January-October period of the year, meanwhile, Turkey’s passenger car and light commercial vehicle markets decreased by 1.06% to 719,499 units when compared to 727,243 in the same period of last year. Passenger car sales increased 0.77% on the year to 553,111 units from 548,859 units recorded in the same period of 2015 while sales for light commercial vehicles declined 6.72% year over year to 166,388 units from 178,384 vehicles in the January-October period of the previous year.