The average price of a used car increased 2.8% in May to £17,815, marking the 38th consecutive month of year-on-year retail price growth. However, potential retail growth remains constrained by used...

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...

In a poor start the year, UK retail registrations fell by 13.9% in January, with fleet also down, dropping 2.2%. Those figures left overall registrations down 7.3% compared with the same month in 2019...

December’s new car registrations saw an uplift on the same month in 2018, driven largely by gains of 7.3% in fleet. With the retail market flat and business registrations declining 20.5%, the result...

Although still down, October saw the new car market recovering somewhat from the annual trend, with the 153,599 registrations representing a drop of 2.9% compared with the same month last year, and...

The relationships between franchised retailers and their car manufacturers have hit an all time low, according to the latest NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey. The publication of the winter 2017/2018 survey...

The UK new car market continued its decline through January, with the 163,615 vehicles registered representing a fall of 6.3% over the same month last year. Demand fell across the board, with retail...

The UK new car market continued its decline through January, with the 163,615 vehicles registered representing a fall of 6.3% over the same month last year. Demand fell across the board, with retail...

A sharp decline in new vehicle registrations in December, down 14.4% compared with the same month in 2016, meant that the overall market in 2017 fell by 5.7%. Retail registrations in the month were...

A new market that fell 5% in 2017 and challenging conditions going into 2018 do not seem to have seen much of a relaxing in manufacturer targets, with 95% of retailers citing new car sales as a...

A sharp decline in new vehicle registrations in December, down 14.4% compared with the same month in 2016, meant that the overall market in 2017 fell by 5.7%. Retail registrations in the month were...

The latest car sales data brings worrying confirmation that the long run of a retail driven economy may be starting to falter. With the performance of the automotive sector so intrinsically linked to...

A dramatic decline in October saw the UK new car market fall by over 12%, with double digit falls in both private and fleet registrations. October marked the seventh consecutive month of falling...

The UK new car market declined for a sixth consecutive month in September. Registrations fell by 9.3% in this key month, with SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes citing economic and political uncertainty,...

The UK new car market reported its fifth consecutive month of decline in August, as registrations fell 6.4%. Private registrations saw the biggest fall, dropping 9.9% compared with the same month in...

July new car registrations saw a fourth consecutive monthly fall, with declines across retail, fleet and business markets. Retail demand dropped 6.8% compared with the same month last year, while...

The new car market continued its second quarter decline, with falls in both retail (-7.8%) and fleet (-2.4%) registrations in June. The total market was down 4.8%, and year-to-date registrations are...

With diesel pollution making headlines and figures from the SMMT showing increased market share for low emission vehicles, Paragon Car Finance’s most recent survey of leading UK brokers reveals an...

The US auto retail industry is bracing itself for some serious challenges in the used car market as a flood of vehicles come down the ex-lease pipeline over the next few years. So far, values have...

Looking back you would probably give September (and the whole of the third quarter) about a score of seven out of ten. Results were mixed and failed to live up to the heady heights of the previous...