VW Group is planning to reduce both the number of retail partners and the number of locations for its portfolio of brands including Audi, Seat, Skoda, Cupra and Volkswagen, a spokesperson has...

Retail demand for new vehicles slumped in November, falling 5.9% compared with the same month last year. The 60,506 new registrations, down from 64,921 in November 2022, represent a market share of...

After a modest uplift in September, which itself followed a significant downward swing in August, retail registrations were all but flat in October, showing a rise of just 0.3% compared with the same...

September’s new car registrations showed growth in the retail sector, but only by a modest 5.8%, which was dwarfed by the 40.8% increase in the fleet market. Some 122,944 new cars were registered by...

After several months of flat or falling numbers, private new vehicle registrations picked up in June, seeing 14.8% growth compared with the same month last year. Having said that, June 2022, in the...

The Audi Q8 e-tron is the brand’s new range-topping electric SUV. Actually, it’s a heavily facelifted version of the existing Audi e-tron, which was launched back in 2018; but by adding the...

Lexus aims to begin catching with premium rivals’ growing pure electric line-ups with its first ground-up battery electric vehicle (BEV) – the RZ. Positioned between the smaller NX and larger RX,...

UK new vehicle registrations surged ahead in February, rising 26.2% compared with the same month in 2022. But the vast bulk of the growth came in the fleet market, up 46.2%, while retail registrations...

In a strange set of October registrations figures, the continuation of September’s prioritisation of fleet by the OEMs was the least of the surprises. Perhaps more so was the strength of the...

A slight easing of new car supplies combined with the continued focus from the OEMs on the retail market saw private new car registrations increase 3.2% in August compared with the same month last...

After last month’s fall, retail registrations for July stabilised in comparison with the same month last year, with 59,847 vehicles registered. While only seven more than in July 2021, which was...

Retail registrations were hit hard in June, down 21.7% compared with the same month last year. And that seems not to have been due to any rebalancing in favour of fleet, which was itself down 27.6%....

Ukraine produces half the world’s neon gas, which is used in semiconductor production – and the war is predicted to “hammer car production” due to factory closures. The complexity of producing...

Audi’s future electric cars will become ‘experience devices’ as the German brand builds in ever-more digital functionality and “rethinks the automobile”. It was the firm’s central message...

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Retail registrations rose a modest 0.4% in October, but retailers will surely have been hoping for more given that October 2019 was itself a weak month. The market wasn’t helped by the...

Commentators are bemoaning the weakest ever ‘new plate’ September following a 4.4% drop in new car registrations, but the true picture is rarely as simplistic as the headlines. It should be noted...