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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...

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March 2021 new car registrations are set to be up 10% despite retailers remaining closed. The forecast for 280k sales is “testament to dealers rapidly embracing online sales and click-and-collect...

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...

New car registrations fell 2.4% in 2019 to hit a year total of 2.31m units. Retail registrations fell 3.2% taking 44.1% of the market. The fall in 2019 brings the market to a six-year low and the SMMT...

September new car registrations rose just 1.3% against the same month last year which itself was down more than 20% due to incoming WLTP regulations. The total registrations for the first 69-plate...

New car registrations fell 6.8% in 2018 to finish the year at 2.36 million units. The SMMT blamed the switch to WLTP regulations impacting supply and a lack of consumer confidence thanks to broad...

At the end of September the SMMT reported that registrations in the key plate change month were down by over 9%, bringing the year to date total 3.9% behind 2016, so the prospect of a 5% drop by year...

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New car registrations fell by 8.5% in May, according to Monday’s figures from the SMMT. I think this announcement was a little buried by everything else going on last week, and took more of a...

March new car registrations ended the month 8.4% up on last year’s figure to hit a total of 562,337 cars. Retail sales were up 4.4% while fleet registrations were up 12.6%. The March leap, fed by...

One last push. That’s what they all say this time of the year. As we near the end of September, all eyes will predictably be on the sales you’ve managed to achieve. Against a backdrop of Brexit,...

March new car registrations hit a new all-time record for the month hitting 518,707, up 5.3% on March last year. The March 2016 half-million barrier busting figure tops the previous record set in...

I’ve spent the past week or so trying to balance different impressions of the auto retail market.  On the one side we’ve seen yet another month of new car registrations growth coupled to some...

I know the release date for April’s new-car registration figures are almost upon us, but this week I learnt a bit more about the March stats. Or, more precisely, the reason for the surprisingly large...