27 Nov, 2016 @ 17:36
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Massive increase in Spanish cars sold to countries outside EU

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BrandNewCarsRex460CAR manufacturers in Spain are offloading an increasing number of motors to countries outside the EU.

A 176% increase since 2009 has seen Spanish manufacturers target the US, Turkey and Algeria in particular, as well as South Korea and Mexico.

A total of 455,958 cars exported outside the EU in the last 12 months, compared to just 164,946 seven years ago.

In total 1.85 million vehicles were exported through the first nine months of 2016, up 8.4% from the previous year.

France, Germany, Italy and the UK remain the biggest consumers overall.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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