The number of motor vehicles in Malta rose by 1,767 in the fourth quarter of 2007 as the number of newly-registered vehicles continued to outstrip the number of vehicles taken off the roads, according to recent media reports on the Internet. New vehicle licenses actually rose by 3,138 between October and December last year.

59 percent vehicles were new and the rest were imported second hand vehicles. On annual basis, the number of new vehicle licenses in Malta reached 12,589 in 2007, a drop of 1.8 percent from 2006.

There was a drop of 1.3 percent in new vehicles and 2.5 percent in imported used vehicles.

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