Led by passenger car exports totaling $3.2 billion,
Turkey's
automotive exports rose 25.5 percent year on year to $9.51 billion in the first nine months of the year.
In September alone,
automotive exports rose 16 percent year on year to $1.13 billion.
For the January-September 2005 period, the Turkish
automotive sector exported a total of 167 countries and self-governing territories, as well as 13 free zones.