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...

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...

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...

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...

While most of the headlines will inevitably focus on a ninth consecutive month of registrations growth, the garden is not so rosy in the retail end of the market. Struggling to keep ahead of last...

December saw battery electric vehicles claim their largest ever monthly market share, of 32.9%, while for 2022 as a whole they comprised 16.6% of registrations, surpassing diesel for the first time to...

In the face of rapidly growing competition for EV chargepoints, inadequate support from both central and local government is threatening to put the brakes on the UK’s zero emission transition. So...

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...