<br />
ONLINE WEEKLY<br />
MOTORTRADER<br />
ISSUE 20 THE VOICE OF THE CAR RETAILING SECTOR 4 SEPTEMBER 2009<br />
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Scrappage boost<br />
for August sales<br />
Scrappage helped August sales rise 6 per cent, the second consecutive month of growth<br />
but registrations are down by a fifth in the first eight months of the year<br />
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BOOSTED: Hyundai saw sales rocket 323 per cent<br />
<br />
John Kirwan<br />
<br />
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NEW car registrations rose 6<br />
per cent in August to 67,006<br />
units according to data from<br />
the SMMT.<br />
This was the second<br />
successive month of growth<br />
and builds on the 2.4 per cent<br />
gain in July, as the scrappage<br />
incentive schemes continued<br />
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