Total motor vehicle registrations rose 35% in September to 4,607 from 3,412 in the same month last year, according to CySTAT.
Passenger saloon car registrations alone increased 35.9% to 3,722 (2,738 in September 2022.
In January-September, the total number of registered vehicles increased by 29.0% to 34,280, compared to 26,581 during the same period in 2022.
In the same period, passenger saloon car registrations rose by 29.8% y-o-y to 27,499, (from 21,183), while of the total passenger saloon cars, 11,487 or 41.8% were new and 16,012 or 58.2% were used cars. Rental cars, in particular, showed an increase of 38.3% to 4,811.
Motor coach and bus registrations increased to 266 in January-September, (up 68 y-o-y), while goods conveyance vehicle registrations increased to 3,226, compared to 2,867 in the same period in 2022 (+12.5%).
Light goods vehicles increased by 8.7% to 2,514, heavy goods vehicles by 37.2% to 398, road tractors (trailers) by 68.3% to 106, and rental vehicles by 3.5% to 208.
Finally, registrations of mopeds under 50cc increased to 230 in January-September, from 199 in the same period last year, while registrations of motorcycles over 50cc increased 33.3% to 2,651 (from 1,989 in the same period in 2022).
