New car sales fall 17.5%

New car sales fall 17.5%
Staff reporters
The brake is still on for new car sales, with registrations down 17.5 percent, or 2,438, at 11,514 new cars on the road in June compared to a year earlier, according to Motor Industry Association data.In the year to date, new registrations have slumped 29.1 percent, hit hard by the covid-19 response across both passenger and commercial vehicle sales."It's confirmation that the market is tightening its belt in a recession," MIA chief executive David Crawford said.Pure electric vehicles continued a modest rate of monthly registratio...