Czech Republic becomes Europe’s biggest car producer per capita

The Czech Republic has become Europe’s biggest car producer per capita, the Slovak daily Pravda reported on Saturday. Car production in Slovakia, which produced the highest number of cars per one inhabitant in the previous years, dropped in 2009 by some 20 percent. In the Czech Republic, car production rose last year by more than 3 percent to a record 970,000 vehicles. The biggest car producer in Europe in total numbers is Germany, with 5.2 million cars. The Czech Republic is fifth.