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A total of 14,513 new motor vehicles were registered, of which 11,478 were automobiles in January 2015.
First registrations decreased by 18.8 per cent from the corresponding month of the previous year, according to Statistics Finland’s data.
The number of new passenger cars registered was 10,267, which was 19.1 per cent down from the year before.
The share of new diesel-driven passenger cars was 42.0 per cent as per the data based on the Vehicular and Driver Data Register of the Finnish Transport Safety Agency.
The numbers are exclusive of the vehicles on the Åland Islands, according to the statistics.
