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Scrappage scheme boosts new car sales

28/05/2010 - 07:15:20

New car sales for the first five months of this year have surpassed the total for the whole of 2009.

Some 57,898 new cars have been sold so far in 2010 -438 more than total amount sold last year - despite forecasts at the beginning of the year which projected 70,000 sales for the year as a whole.

The Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) said the trend is partly due to the introduction of the scrappage scheme.

“At the start of this year, we were very cautious about our expectations for 2010," said SIMI Director General Alan Nolan.

"While we knew that scrappage would have the knock on effect of increased sales, we didn’t expect to be hitting the 57,000 mark in May.

"At the beginning of the year we predicted 70,000 new car sales for 2010. Now, we are looking at considerably more.

"Our proposals last year estimated that around 10,000 scrappage scheme cars would be sold, but we also predicted that one of the real benefits of scrappage would be to kick-start the demand for new cars," Mr Nolan added.

"We can clearly see today that this is working."

“Our industry was one of the first hit in the economic downturn. We are also one of the first to see a lift and hopefully this will soon extend across other sectors," Mr Nolan concluded.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/business/...es-459411.html