Rising sales in its Eastern and Central regions may soon see Europe emerge as the world’s largest car market, surpassing the U.S. possibly by the end of the year. The U.S. has traditionally led Europe by a wide margin but sales numbers so far the year differ by only several thousand units.
Sales for the first ten months of the year stood at 13,583,559 for the U.S. and 13,572,669 for Europe. Compare this with last year, where sales in the U.S. topped out at 15,599,970, a lead of 740,000 over Europe.
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