In almost all major markets, BEV sales grew far more than the total light vehicle market. In the ten Western European focus markets in a PwC study, BEV sales increased by 49% in the second quarter of...

The FCA’s new Consumer Duty represents what the regulator terms a “paradigm shift” in its expectations of firms. The regulator has published final rules and guidance introducing a new Consumer...

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The challenge of planning, forecasting and supporting your business with actionable insight at present is plain for us all to see. Issues include geographically dispersed and home-schooling...

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With China returning to some sort of normality, there is a noticeable split among consumers with regard to spending. According to analysts at PwC, one industry survey has shown that some are spending...

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2018 has seen the pace of growth slowing across the globe, with the economies that depend on trade being hit the hardest. And future growth is being threatened by an escalating trade war between the...

Global automotive M&A deal value reached $59.3bn for the year in Q3, resulting in the highest year to date value in the last 10 years. Deal value for the quarter came in at $18.3bn, marking a 17%...

We are currently on the threshold of one of the biggest changes to International Financial Reporting Standards, or IFRS for short, for a decade. After a number of years in coming, the introduction of...

With Article 50 triggered, a sense of realisation is kicking in. Economists agree that even the most optimistic scenarios for trade agreements, based on either the Norway model (EEA) or the...

The future of the car industry has never been under as much pressure from so many different directions as it is right now, with authorities, the consumer and the environment all likely to have an...

The headlines from the Consumer Electronics Show in 2017 were slightly different to those of five years previous; the car manufacturers had moved in. Alongside in-car technology and wireless charging,...

Auto Retail Network has launched a new report focusing on the future of mobility and the implications for the UK’s auto retailers. Created in partnership with PwC, The Mobility Roadmap for UK Auto...

Global stock markets continue to trade at, or around, record highs as professional investors and chief executives say they are more confident about prospects for global growth. A recent survey by PwC...

When science fiction wants to show a glimpse at the world of transportation in years to come, more often than not it takes us to a highly evolved version of a city, and rarely ventures to more rural...

Car retailers have a crucial role to play in the implementation of innovative new technology into the market over the next few years. This is the view of Matthew Avery, Thatcham’s director of...

Technology has had an impact on every area of the car buying process, altering what people expect from their cars, inside and out, and arguably even influencing how they expect to buy them. After all,...

The rate of change in the automotive industry in recent years has been phenomenal, with everything from the way people finance their purchase to what they expect from the cars themselves radically...

March new car registrations hit 518,707 to set a new all-time record for the month, topping the previous high of March 2015 which saw 492,274 cars registered. And the month rounded off a record...