GlobalData: Coronavirus leads to nosedive in global vehicle sales with lowest January registrations since 2012

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By mmillikinMar 5, 2020, 5:30 am450 ptsHot
Only 6.2 million light-duty vehicles were sold worldwide in January—the lowest monthly figure since January 2012, which saw 5.9 million units sold, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company. Driving the drop in sales was the emergence in December 2019 of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China.…

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