The headline figure for March registrations might be one of overall growth, with the total up 11.5% over the same month in 2020, but the retail element within that total was down by 4.1%. And the...

The impact of the January lockdown was laid bare by the month’s figures for new car registrations, with big falls across the board compared with the same month last year. Retail registrations were...

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 collapse in retail registrations continued into November, driving a drop in the overall market of 1.3% compared to the same month in 2018. Retail registrations of 65,114 units represented a fall...

The UK new car market fell again in February, with the 80,805 new cars registered representing a 2.8% drop compared with February 2017. Private and fleet registrations were down 2.8% and 2.0%...

While the 66-plate change saw registrations in the UK top the two million mark, with overall growth in September of 1.6% compared with the same month in 2015, all of this came from the fleet sector,...

With new car registration volumes continuing to run at unprecedented levels the UK market could be in real danger of overheating if some are to be believed. What is certain is that despite the...

None of the rhetoric about ‘anticipated stability’ or ‘moderate growth’ could hide the fact that decline in retail registrations is appearing to be accelerating, falling in July by 6.1% after the...

The pace of decline in used values is accelerating with prices sliding 1.9% in May. The trend follows an established seasonal pattern that sees firm values in the first quarter of the year and a...

While I normally talk to a fair number of auto industry folk in the course of any month and in September (and March) that’s doubly so, but because of the ‘dieselgate’ shenanigans this September has...