RFI France.
The manufacturers’ organisation said the number of sales of new cars in France slipped to 96,115.
Over the first eight months of this year, the fall was 13.4 percent, it said, noting that the French carmakers PSA Peugeot Citroen and Renault suffered more last month than their foreign competitors.
The sector has been weak for several months owing to the end of a cash-for-bangers government bonus to support car sales at the height of the financial crisis.