The nation's automobile sales figures continues to sink for the first nine months of this year, with last month seeing a very drastic decline of more than 40 percent, latest statistics show.

Car sales during the period from January to last month summed at 286,238 units, a 30 percent drop from the same period last year, according to figures released by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications.

Last month alone sales fell by 43 percent during last year to only 25,005 units, the statistics showed.