Absorption rates for the average motor retailer jumped to 93% in March, thanks to returning customers from last year’s new car registrations. That follows something of a slump in absorption in...

Although UK consumers have experienced significant financial pressures due to the rising cost of living, it has seemingly not dampened demand for used cars. Retail activity in the first quarter of...

April provided further evidence that OEMs are continuing to channel their still-limited production output into the retail channel, with private registrations of new cars up a further 4.8% in April...

As showrooms reopened, April saw the expected huge rise in registrations compared with the first full lockdown month of last year, but volumes are still some 12.9% down on the decade average. There is...

With the industry allowed to open the showroom doors from 1 June we are starting to see the recovery and will be able to determine the shape of that recovery over the coming weeks. There should be...

The China Passenger Car Association released figures for automotive sales for April, showing a 4.4% increase over the same month in 2019, and hinting that a V-shaped recovery in automotive retail...

The fall in new car registrations of some 97% in April is dramatic, but certainly unsurprising, and any comparative data for the month is largely meaningless. Of more concern is what the sector’s...

The UK new car market declined 4.1% in April, in large part due to a 10.3% fall in retail registrations, offset only slightly by a 2.9% increase in fleet. Business registrations were also...

The UK new market experienced a significant decline in April, with the 152,076 registrations representing a drop of 19.8% compared with the same month last year. And within those figures, private...

The new VED system due in April will mean a late surge in March registrations, according to Vertu chief executive Robert Forrester. Speaking to Auto Retail Agenda last week, Mr Forrester said that the...

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After the hectic pace of March it was unsurprising that we had a slight slowdown in April. Every living prospect had been dragged forwards into the first quarter and, as always, it was time for a bit...

After the hectic pace of March it was unsurprising that we had a slight slowdown in April. Every living prospect had been dragged forwards into the first quarter and, as always, it was time for a bit...

The mid-month worries of a horrendous retail sales picture for April weren’t realised, and in the end a 2.5% drop in retail sales might actually be something of a relief, with Auto Retail Bulletin...

There’s good news and some not so good news regarding April’s new car registration figures. First the good: fleet and business sector sales are up 6.1 percent and 2.8 percent respectively. The not...

Publication of the SMMT new car registration figures is an important moment in the monthly routine of Auto Retail Network – so much so that we actually schedule the printing of Auto Retail...