Germany’s top administrative court has said cities are able to ban older diesel vehicles from streets with immediate effect in order to meet air pollution levels.

Autorola's real-time market intelligence and used car market analytics software platfrom Indicata has launched in France.

A study showed that whilst Generation Z, i.e. those born from 2000 onwards, would normally be considered the most likely to shop online, when it comes to buying a car they lag behind the older generations.

Most buyers switch back to petrol as diesel sales fall 17% in Q1. New diesel car sales have continued to fall since its European peak of 2011.

By the end of April 2018, sales of new passenger cars sold year-to-date in the European Union (EU28) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries of Norway, Switzerland and Iceland hit 5.63 million.

In April, we mentioned how LCV sales are dependent on industrial confidence and GDP and that we are likely to continue to see a divergence of results not just across Europe as a whole but even between the more closely aligned euro zone.