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...

It would be an understatement to say that the UK motor retail sector has performed phenomenally well since the showroom doors were reopened in April. We have seen the lessons learned and advances made...

What a period this has been for used car values. Since Cap Live was introduced in 2012, the largest movement up during a single month before this year was a 1% increase in February 2018 – generally,...

With showrooms open for the full month of May, registrations surged ahead of the same month last year, with the total up some 674% on 2020 where retailers were still coming to terms with trading...

An 89% fall in new car registrations in May is no surprise given that retailers’ doors were closed throughout the month, and they were only latterly allowed to begin sales using click and collect...

The used car market has had a challenging start to 2019. A sluggish opening to the year was followed by demand being hit in April and May, first with the Easter break and then by the May bank holiday....

New car registrations continued to fall in May, with a drop of 4.6% as 183,724 new vehicles were registered, compared with 192,649 in the same month in 2018. Private, fleet and business registrations...

The average UK motor retailer produced a comparatively strong performance for the month of May, coming in marginally above breakeven. While this does not sound like a strong result on the face of it,...

The continued resurgence in private registrations helped to drive a second month of growth in the new car market, with May’s increase of 10.1% coming off the back of the April rise of 26.3%, pushing...

2016 is definitely the year of the quarter-ends. We are seeing increasingly volatile performance as dealers move through the first two months of the quarter making losses as they strive for targets,...

As we enter the final countdown before Britain goes to the ballot box on 23 June, the decision to stay in or leave the European Union is possibly one of the most important in setting the direction for...

Retail registrations fell in May for the second month in a row, dropping by 3.0% after the fall of 2.5% in April. Overall private registrations for the year-to-date are still up on 2015, but the lead...