Spanish car production fell 47.6% in February

According to sources from the Association of Automobile Manufacturers, in the first two months of this year produced 265,993 units are 50.3% lower than in January-February 2008.

Also fall in line with this, exports stood at 128,065 units in February (90% of total production), a record that is below 43.1% to the same month last year and raising the total of two months to 233,219 units (87.6% of production) and a decrease of 46.8% .

segment, the monthly production of cars was 117,683 units (the 82.7% of total production), a figure that drops by 43% compared to February 2008, while in the aggregate there are 216,525 annual tourism produced 46.4% less. All resulted in the marginal figure of 210 units, a 97.9% lower than a year ago and accumulated 358 units, a fall of 98.2%.

Production of commercial vehicles stood at 24,338 units, 55.6% less than the same month of the year 2008 and total 265,993 units (-50.3 %).

As for exports, from cars in the month fell 37.7%, for an SUV of 98% and industrial 51.2%, while in so far this year sales andalusia foreign cars back 42.4% of the SUV, 98.6% and for industrial, 51.7%.