At the end of December 2015, the stock of licensed motor vehicles stood at 346,918, up by 0.7 per cent over the previous quarter, the National Statistics Office said today.

Of these, 79.4 per cent were passenger cars, 13.7 per cent were commercial vehicles, 5.8 per cent were motorcycles, while buses and minibuses accounted for less than one per cent.

New licences issued during the period under review amounted to 5,445. The majority of new licences (4,360 or 80.1 per cent of the total) were issued to passenger cars, followed by motorcycles with 528. Newly-licensed 'new' motor vehicles amounted to 2,342, or 43.0 per cent of the total, and newly licensed 'used' motor vehicles totalled 3,103.

In the fourth quarter last year, 106 vehicles were exported. Garaged vehicles amounted to 2,139, while scrapped vehicles totalled 3,431.

As at the end of December last year, 210,289 vehicles, or 60.6 per cent of the total, had petrol engines. Vehicles with diesel engines reached 135,150, or 39.0 per cent of the total.

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