332,455 licensed motor vehicles on Malta’s roads

At the end of September, the stock of licensed motor vehicles stood at 332,455. Of these, 79.3 per cent were passenger cars, 14.2 per cent were commercial vehicles, 5.4 per cent were motorcycles, while buses and minibuses accounted for less than one per cent.

New licences issued during the period under review amounted to 4,740. The majority of new licences (3,814 or 80.5 per cent of the total) were issued to passenger cars, followed by motorcycles with 472. Newly-licensed ‘new’ motor vehicles amounted to 1,946, or 41.1 per cent of the total, and newly licensed ‘used’ motor vehicles totalled 2,794.

In the third quarter this year, 66 vehicles were exported. Garaged vehicles amounted to 1,844, while scrapped vehicles totalled 508.

As at the end of September, 201,662 vehicles, or 60.7 per cent of the total, had petrol engines. Vehicles with diesel engines reached 129,758, or 39.0 per cent of the total.