New-car registrations in Germany fell 17.6 percent in November, a trade association said.
Germany's VDIK association of foreign carmakers said on Tuesday that new-car registrations in the country fell 17.6 percent compared with the same month last year to 233,800 vehicles.
Adjusted for working days, the drop was around 10 percent, the VDIK said, roughly in line with the two previous months.
New-car registrations, which closely track car sales, were down 1.5 percent in the first 11 months of the year in Germany to about 2.86 million units.
"The crisis has again worsened dramatically, as expected," VDIK President Volker Lange said in a statement, forecasting 2008 car sales would be the worst since German reunification.
Germany is the latest major European market to report a steep decline in car sales last month.
On Monday, Spain, Italy and France reported significant drops in new-car sales during November.
In Spain, sales dropped 49.6 percent to 63,068 units in November compared with a year earlier. The drop was the seventh straight month of decline and the biggest monthly fall in nearly 16 years.
Italian new-car registrations fell 29.46 percent in November to 138,352 units, according to data from the country's transport ministry.
French new-car registrations were down 14 percent in November, according to the French automakers association, the CCFA. In the first 11 months, France's new-car sales are up 0.8 percent.
European car sales are already down 5.4 percent in the first 10 months of the year, the latest data available from ACEA, the European carmakers association. ACEA releases its November sales data on December 16.
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The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) will release the UK November car sales on December 4.
Going down
November year-on-year sales are down in major Europe markets
Spain: - 49.6%
Italy: - 29.46%
Germany: - 17.6%
France: - 14.0%
UK: Figures to be released December 4
