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The number of new passenger cars registered in October 2015 was 9,166, which was 3.7 per cent up from the year before, according to Statistics Finland.
The share of new diesel-driven passenger cars was 33.6 per cent.
In October, a total of 14,086 new motor vehicles were registered, of which 10,420 were automobiles.
First registrations decreased by 11.5 per cent from the corresponding month of the previous year as per the data based on the Vehicular and Driver Data Register of the Finnish Transport Safety Agency.
A total of 146,954 vehicles were first registered in the January to October period of 2015. Compared to the year before, there was a decrease of 3.7 per cent, the statistics show.
The number of passenger cars first registered in the January to October period was 91,895, which was nearly on the same level than in the previous year.
The most common passenger car makes first registered in the January to October period were Volkswagen, Toyota and Skoda.
