Automatic transmission cars have attracted great attention in recent years. The interest in manual transmission cars is decreasing day by day.
Nowadays, when purchasing, fuel and engine type are important reasons for preference. The transmission type of the vehicle also plays an important role in the preferences of car lovers.
The total car and light commercial vehicle market grew by 2023 percent in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period of 25,2, reaching 295 thousand 519 units.
During this period, car sales increased by 33,05 percent to 233 thousand 389 units, and light commercial vehicle sales increased by 2,6 percent to 62 thousand 130 units.
Automatic transmission sales are increasing
In the Turkish automotive market, sales of automatic transmission vehicles continued to rise in the January-March period of this year.
It is stated that this increase is also due to the fact that the global production of automatic transmission cars is higher than that of manual transmission.
As of the end of March, automatic transmission cars took an 208 percent share of sales with 441 thousand 89,3 units, while the share of manual transmission cars was 24 percent with 948 thousand 10,7 units.
Thus, 10 out of every 9 cars sold in the said period were recorded as automatic transmission.
Based on car sales in March, automatic transmission sales exceeded manual transmission sales.
Last month, 40 thousand 512 of the total 29 thousand 276 car sales were automatic transmission cars.
