Germany August 2024: Market off -27.8%, BEVs down -68.8%, Opel Astra outsells VW Golf
The Opel Astra outsells the VW Golf for the first time in over 32 years. It's a bloodbath this month for German new car sales, down -27.8% year-on-year in August to just 197,322. This mediocre result tilts the year-to-date tally into negative at -0.3% to 1,907,226. We are now -37%…