Fewer and fewer new cars are on the German roads.
In view of the shortage of chips and production cuts in the factories, the number of new registrations continued to decline in October.
As the Federal Motor Transport Authority announced on Wednesday in Flensburg, 179,683 cars were registered.
That was almost 35 percent less than in October 2020.
The numbers declined in all segments, except for mobile homes and the luxury class.
Since the beginning of the year, almost 2.2 million cars have been newly registered, 5.2 percent less than in the same period of the relatively weak previous year.
"The downturn in the German car market intensified further in October," said the Association of International Motor Vehicle Manufacturers.
The background is global production bottlenecks.
Production also continued to decline in the German plants, mainly because chips were missing, as announced by the Association of the Automotive Industry.
237,000 cars still rolled off the assembly line, 37 percent fewer than in October 2020.
The used car market is also shrinking.
5.7 million were sold in the first ten months, 3.4 percent less than in the same period of the previous year.
In October the minus was a good 16 percent.
Meanwhile, the proportion of electric cars is higher than ever.
17.1 percent of newly registered cars in October were battery electric cars and 13.3 percent were plug-in hybrids.