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Western Europe sales reached 765,383 passenger cars, LMC
Automotive said, basing its forecast on national registration
data and its own estimates ahead of the official sales data
release by the ACEA association on Sept. 15.
LMC said demand had rebounded from a dip in July, when monthly
sales fell for the first time since 2013.
"With one extra working day last month, the West European car
market posted a solid result in August, growing by 8.1 percent
year-on-year. There were no clear negative signs," LMC
Automotive analyst Emiliano Lewis said.
Based on the seasonally adjusted annual selling rate (SAAR),
demand improved to an estimated 13.9 million car sales, LMC
said, up from an annual selling rate of 13.4 million cars last
month.
Europe's largest markets all saw sales gains year-on-year.
In the Germany, Europe's largest market, August car sales
increased by 8.3 percent. Sales in Italy were up 20.1 percent
while in France, the third-largest market in Europe, they were
up 6.7 percent, LMC data showed.
Demand in the United Kingdom, the region's second largest
market, was up 3.3 percent in August, data showed.
(Reporting by Edward Taylor)
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