German July new car sales down 30 pct - source

FRANKFURT, Aug 3 (Reuters) - German new car registrations dropped by about 30 percent in July, falling at the same rate as in the previous month, a person familiar with the figures and close to Germany's VDIK foreign carmaker association told Reuters on Tuesday.

Year-earlier registration figures had been inflated by a government-backed scrapping scheme.

Registrations, which usually lag sales slightly, dropped by about 29 percent in the first seven months of the year, ...