- The European market has significantly improved during the second half-year of 2013 in comparison with the first half-year of the same year (+3.3% in the July-October period against -6 , 5%  in the January-June period). It is mainly the South countries - who had experienced a sharp drop in registrations in the first half of the year (mainly France , Italy and Spain ) – which have improved their performance in the second half-year.

- In France for example, three recent months (July, September, October) turned positive compared to 2012, while the first six months were strongly negative (-11 %).

- In Italy , the improvement is less noticeable even though the last four months show a decrease of 4 %, while the first six months fell by 10%.

- In Spain, the improvement in the second half-year is very clear ( +28.5 % in September and +34.4 % in October ), while the first six months were negative (-5 %). The Faconauto (Association of Spanish dealers ) expects 715,000 registrations in 2013 against 700,000 in 2012, the first annual increase since 2010.

- Southern markets - which weighed heavily on  the Europe-as-a-whole performance - are now on the road to recovery. These three countries represent a third of registrations of Western Europe and 30% of those of the European Union.