In September alone, new passenger car registrations in Bulgaria dropped 28% to 1,823, ACEA said in a press release.
New passenger car registrations in the EU, excluding Malta, fell by an annual 29% to just over 7 million in the January-September period of this year.
In EU12, which encompasses member states that have joined the EU since 2004, new passenger car registrations were 27.3% lower on the year at 822,749.