Car Sales By Nation In Europe: 2012

This was not a good year for Europe and 2013 isn't that promising either. The continent is in financial pressure so decreasing sales are inevitable, even necessary. After all, you should only spend what you can afford. Below the chart shows growth as green and the reverse in yellow.
I divided it into west and east which shows the west is doing it tougher, because the east had its pain sooner and has now levelled off. The UK did well to increase, not something I expected. France and Italy took big hits in sales, as did both Portugal and Greece.

WEST
1	1	1	Germany	3,082,504	-3%	26.2%
3	3	2	UK	2,044,609	5%	17.4%
2	2	3	France	1,898,760	-14%	16.1%
4	4	4	Italy	1,402,089	-20%	11.9%
5	5	5	Spain	699,589	-13%	5.9%
7	7	6	Netherlands	502,528	-10%	4.3%
6	6	7	Belgium	486,737	-15%	4.1%
8	8	8	Austria	336,010	-6%	2.9%
9	9	9	Switzerland	328,139	3%	2.8%
10	10	10	Sweden	279,899	-8%	2.4%
12	11	11	Denmark	170,763	0%	1.4%
14	13	12	Norway	137,967	0%	1.2%
15	14	13	Finland	111,251	-12%	0.9%
16	16	14	Ireland	79,498	-12%	0.7%
11	12	15	Portugal	95,290	-38%	0.8%
13	15	16	Greece	58,482	-40%	0.5%
17	17	17	Luxembourg	50,398	1%
18	18	18	Cyprus	10,967	-25%
19	19	19	Iceland	7,902	56%
			Total	11,783,382	-8%
EAST
1	1	1	Poland	273,589	-1%	36.7%
2	2	2	Czech Rep	174,009	0%	23.4%
4	4	3	Slovakia	69,268	2%	9.3%
3	3	4	Romania	66,436	-19%	8.9%
6	6	5	Hungary	53,059	18%	7.1%
5	5	6	Slovenia	48,648	-17%	6.5%
7	7	7	Bulgaria	19,419	2%	2.6%
8	8	8	Estonia	17,267	12%	2.3%
9	9	9	Lithuania	12,170	-8%
10	10	10	Latvia	10,665	-3%
			Total	744,530	-2%

			Grand Total	12,527,912	-8%

Data Source: Thanks to ACEA.