Germany new car sales rise 2.7% to 3.44m in 2017, but diesel car sales fall

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LONDON (ICIS)--Germany's registrations for new cars came in at 3.44m in 2017, up 2.7% from 2016, the country's federal vehicle agency said in a data release on Thursday. Sales of gasoline-powered cars accounted for 57.7% of registrations last year, up from 52.1% in 2016, according to Flensburg-based Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA).