New car registrations jumped 18.2% in March compared with the same month in 2022, but the picture of the first quarter remains one where the bulk of the growth is in fleet, with private registrations...

Sales of battery electric vehicles continue to grow across Europe, with the UK and Germany leading the way, but market share of BEVs in the UK is falling– and the contrast in discounts and...

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...

Private new car registrations have started 2023 as they ended 2022, with another fall as the OEMs continue to prioritise fleet over retail. Private registrations finished the month down 4.3% on...

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...

September saw a fall in retail registrations as the OEMs seemingly moved to address growing demand from the fleet sector. The result was that while fleet registrations increased 12.5% to 101,760...

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%....

by Chris Knight The Dick Lovett Group is a very successful retail business, and at BMW and Mini in Bristol we had always been efficient and performed well on aftersales – especially in...