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Sarah ALCALAY

With a slight drop of 2.97%, the French car market continued to recover in September, after the spring collapse linked to the health crisis, announced the Committee of French automakers (CCFA) on Thursday. .

While the French groups remain on the decline, with -4.35% for PSA and -5.84% for Renault, the Peugeot (PSA group, + 6.69%) and Dacia (Renault group, + 34.88%) brands are doing well, announced the manufacturers.

Vehicle deliveries are gradually resuming

168,291 new passenger cars were put on the roads of France, a decrease of 2.97%, while September 2020 had one more working day.

Over the first nine months of the year, registrations reached some 1,166,700 units, down 28.92% compared to the same period last year.

The market is slowly recovering from the health crisis.

With an auto trade paralyzed by containment, vehicle deliveries collapsed 72% in March, 88.8% in April, and then another 50.3% in May.

They then rebounded 1.2% in June and 3.9% in July, before falling back to 19.8% in August.

Foreign groups do better

For François Roudier, spokesperson for the CCFA, "we had a fairly good end of the month with a lot of deliveries, which made up for a difficult start to the month".

According to him, it is possible that some models had delivery delays linked to the restart of factories in Europe.

François Roudier indicated that the CCFA maintained a market forecast of -25 or -30% for the whole of 2020, with a sales figure of around 1.6 million for private vehicles, which would be the figure the lowest in 15 years.

In September, French manufacturers recovered less well (-5%) than their foreign competitors (+ 0.02%).

The Volkswagen group, the leading importer in France, grew by 1.70% in particular, driven by numerous deliveries to Audi.

BMW is down 15.66% but Toyota (+ 5.06%) and Ford (+ 4.21%) show an increase.

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