New car sales in the UK fell in 2017 by 5.7% – and diesel sales by 17.1% – although sales were still 2.5 million and the third best sales figures in the last decade. To no one’s great surprise, new car sales in the UK have fallen in 2017, although the drop of 5.7 per […]
New car registrations hit 16 year high in March
New car registrations in the UK continue to rise, with March 2015 figures the best in 16 years, with almost 500,000 cars registered last month. Every month we say that new car registrations really can’t continue to rise. But they do. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reports that total new car registrations for […]
New Car Sales in January best for 8 years
New car registrations in January reached 164,856, the highest total since 2007 and the 35th month in a row new car registrations have risen. New car registrations in 2014 reached their highest level for a decade as the seemingly inexorable rise in numbers continued, but the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) cautioned that they […]
New car sales up again in October (2013). Should hit 2.25 million by year end
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has revised it estimate for 2013 car sales to 2.25 million after October’s sales hit 157,314. It’s another growing month for car sales in the UK, with SMMT reporting that new car sales in the UK for October 2013 rose by 4 per cent to 157,314 and registrations […]
New car registrations at five-year high September 2013
The inexorable rise and rise of new car registrations continued in September with new car registrations up 12.1 per cent on 2012. Despite the UK economy being in the doldrums for much of the past five years, new car registrations have recovered well ahead of the curve and still seem to be unstoppable. September saw […]
New car sales in UK still growing – up 14.8% April 2013. Driven by PPI Claims?
The SMMT shows the UK is yet again reporting new cars sales growing strongly, with registrations UP by 14.8 per cent in April 2013. It is quite hard to fathom just how UK new car sales (well, registrations) continue to rise inexorably against a backdrop of otherwise stagnant economic activity, but they do. April 2013 has […]
UK Car Sales up again in November (2012)
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has revealed that new car sales grew again in the UK in November – up by 11.3 per cent. At some point, new car sales in the UK must surely start to ease as the economic pressure bite, but so far in 2012 we’ve had an inexorable rise in numbers. The latest figures […]
UK Car Sales up again in October 2012
New car registrations rose in October by 12.1 per cent in the UK, the ninth month of 2012 to see rising car sales. The European car market may be in a real mess with carnage looming for production facilities run by mainstream car makers, but the UK continues to grow its new car market with […]
German new car sales drop 11 per cent – pre-reg accounts for 33.5 per cent
New car sales in Germany dropped by 11 per cent in September with pre-reg cars accounting for over a third of all sales. [nggallery id=983 template=customlinks] The UK bucked the European trend in new car sales in September as sales fell across the continent, with even Germany – which is almost a quarter of the European car […]