Quite unsurprisingly, the European Union announced a 27-percent decrease in new car sales in January 2009, Forbes.com reports.
According to the report, no country was spared. Everybody made a loss, with Germany still remaining on top of the revenue list and France being the only country able to contain the loss in single digits.
This sale of a little below a million cars is the worst sales record in the last two decades.
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