Car and light-truck registrations in Colorado increased 20.8 percent for the year through May, the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association reported Wednesday. Nationally, registrations were up 20.3 percent.
For May, Colorado registrations were up 36.1 percent from May 2010, although a glitch in the data-collection system in March and April may have caused that number to be inflated, said CADA.
Used-car registrations — vehicles 7 years old or newer — were up 10.1 percent in May and off 3.6 percent year to date.
The year-to-date surge translated to 50,226 new vehicles registered in Colorado through May versus 41,562 new vehicles sold in the same period in 2010.
Tim Jackson, president of CADA, said, “New cars are selling at higher numbers, both fuel-efficient small cars as well as longtime favorites — pickups, vans, crossovers and SUVs — something that did not happen in 2008’s gas-price run-up and recession trigger.”
The Denver Post
