By William Wilkes

 

FRANFURT--New car registrations in Germany rose 3% in January compared with the year-earlier period, increasing at a lower rate than in the previous two months, industry group VDA said Tuesday.

"The German passenger car market got off to a good start to the year, continuing the trend of previous months," VDA President Matthias Wissmann said.

The rise in January registrations, a mirror of sales, to 218,400 was below the 8% increase in December and the 9% rise in November.

Exports of German cars fell 6% on the year to 313,600 in January, VDA said, and production fell 2%. VDA said January this year had less one working day than in January 2015.

 

Write to William Wilkes at william.wilkes@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

February 02, 2016 08:08 ET (13:08 GMT)

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