Sales: Upswing for light trucks

A total of 41,346 passenger and freight transport vehicles took to the roads of Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein last year. This corresponds to an increase of 7.3 percent compared to the previous year's figure.

Motorhomes in particular continued to benefit from the trend toward individual travel, with growth of 26.4 percent. With 7588 new registrations, they reached a new record level.

Lightweight rolls continue to gain ground
Van enrollments rebounded 4.3 percent, while heavy-duty vehicle enrollments hovered around year-ago levels. However, both categories are well below market levels prior to the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic due to the semiconductor shortage.

Auto-Schweiz media spokesman Christoph Wolnik: "Without the negative influences of the shortage of semiconductors and other electronic components, the plus would certainly have been greater."

Severities are at previous year's level
The market for heavy commercial vehicles remained in pandemic mode in 2021. However, with 3565 placements on the market, only just 14 units were missing to repeat the previous year's result.

Before the start of the Corona crisis, the market level in 2019 was still 4291 new trucks. The absence of semiconductor products and other commodities is also clearly noticeable in heavies. In addition, there is a strong volatility of this market segment.

Passenger vans report records
Probably mainly thanks to the pandemic, passenger transport vehicles are rushing from record to record. Also in 2021, more new vehicles were redeemed than ever before. With 8530 registrations, there was an increase of 23.2 percent. Driving this development are motorhomes, which form the core of the segment with almost 89 percent.

Together with the 238,481 passenger cars, 279,827 new motor vehicles were put into circulation in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein in 2021.

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