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The overall UK new car market might have finished strongly in December, but fleet was the only driver of that growth, with retail registrations falling 14% compared with the same month last year. The...

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...

Retail registrations fell 8.1% in August compared with the same month last year (in what was a supply-constrained market), while at the same time fleet registrations surged over 58%. The result was a...

Another surge in fleet registrations saw the UK new car market grow 16.7% in May compared with the same month last year, but retail registrations were down yet again this year, falling 0.5%. And that...

Retail registrations rose 2.7% in November compared with the same month last year, but the market has fleet to thank for its surge, with fleet registrations growing 45.4%. The result is that the...

The vehicle life model that we have seen for decades, and which has served the used car with a predictable flow of stock no longer fully exists, and this will undoubtedly constrict future supply. So...

The Toyota Corolla Commercial has been launched in retailers after the firm identified a ‘green space’ opportunity in the marketplace. As reported in Auto Retail Bulletin in September 2021, the...

The new Peugeot 308 has been awarded a better retained value by Cap Gold Book than the sector-leading Volkswagen Golf. After three years and 36,000 miles, a new 308 1.2T 130 Allure Premium has an RV...

Off the back of a trading update which details the expectation of record underlying profit before tax, Lookers has also provided an update on group strategy. This addresses a number of long-term...

Pent up demand through the summer plus three months worth of PCP contracts that had expired saw a buoyant market through July and August, but perhaps not a representation of the true market, and the...

First deliveries of the fully-electric Volkswagen ID.3 1st Edition began in late September with a Covid-friendly national handover event. This came almost 18 months after launch customers had placed a...

Renault retailers are better prepared than most for the electrification of motoring thanks to almost a decade of selling fully electric vehicles. The first models went on sale in 2011 and since then,...

There was a flurry of excitement following the announcement by Volkswagen AG, in May, of their sales plans for the new ID3 electric car. In Germany, they intend to use the agency model from launch....

Vehicle retailers can use technology to reduce the duration of courtesy car loans by 25% on average according to new analysis by AX. The research revealed that drivers given courtesy loan cars...

Seat UK MD Richard Harrison has hit the targets he defined when he started in his role four and a half years ago: 3% market share, 2% return on sales. With the first chapter of the strategy drawing to...

Given that last September’s registrations plunged by more than 20% as retailers struggled to get hold of volumes of WLTP compliant vehicles, it was hoped that this September’s figures would show a...

Fleet and lease, dealer part-ex and nearly new vehicles defied the expected seasonal downturn in used car values last month at BCA which recorded rises from a year ago. Fleet and lease values averaged...

The opportunity to re-engage with more than 150,000 existing Range Rover Evoque customers with the introduction of the all-new model gives retailers “a fantastic starting point” they may not...