A total of 7.00 million motor vehicles were registered
on reference day 31 December 2019, by 1.5% or 100 626 more than the year
before, as Statistics Austria reports. Passenger cars, the most important
type of vehicle (share: 72.0%), showed an increase of 1.2% to 5.04 million
vehicles. Regarding commercial vehicles, 468 078 tractors used for agriculture
and forestry
In 2019, as in the previous years, the following ten passenger car makes showed the highest stock: VW 1 026 451 (share 20.4%), Audi 379 075 (7.5%), BMW 306 030 (6.1%), Ford 295 667 (5.9%), Skoda 294 068 and Opel 292 238 (each 5.8%), Mercedes 274 973 (5.5%), Renault 210 415 (4.2%), Seat 202 868 (4.0%) and Peugeot 186 760 (3.7%).
With 675 passenger cars per 1 000 inhabitants Burgenland had the highest level of motorisation, followed by Lower Austria (654), Carinthia (648), Upper Austria (636), Styria (616) and Salzburg (567). The Austrian Länder Tyrol and Vorarlberg (each 544) and Vienna (374) were below the Austrian average of 566 passenger cars per 1 000 inhabitants (provisional population stock on 1 January 2020).
Regarding passenger cars by type of engine, diesel-drive
decreased by 0.1% to 2.77 million (2018: