WESTERN EUROPE
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AID compiled figures reveal that the widely predicted mass exodus away from pricey diesels to the latest generation of cheaper, smaller capacity turbo-charged petrol-fuelled cars hasn't yet happened Oil has been trading below $50 a barrel since the beginning of the current year and the pump price of both petrol and diesel in Europe has now been falling for months. While cheered a great deal by the ongoing downward drift in European fuel prices, the region’s new car buyers have clearly not forgotten that during the only recently endured era of sky-high fuel prices, fuel-sipping diesels remained an important firewall against spiralling motoring costs. Exclusively compiled data from AID reveals that latest state-of-the-art diesels still captured more than half of last year’s recovering West European car market, thus leaving the region’s popular oil-burners with a largely unchanged sales share. While new car buyers in the Netherland remained most loyal to petrol powered cars, with just one in four opting last year for a diesel, more than 60 per cent of the new cars sold last year in France, Spain and BeLux were diesel powered. In both Germany and the UK, the region’s two biggest car markets, every other car sold there last year was diesel fuelled. Last year’s West European diesel car share was highest in both Ireland and Portugal, where last year diesels accounted for more than 70 per cent of the market...more MORE LIKE THIS: Europe’s diesel car demand remains in robust good health 14 Nov 2014> More than half the Maseratis sold in Germany so far this year are diesels 15 Aug 2014 > Diesels still humming along nicely 14 August 2014
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