The UK new car market grew 8.2% in December but it was all driven by fleet, with private registrations seeing a fall of 15.8% against fleet’s growth 29.9%. That leaves the market share figures...

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...

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...

Retail registrations increased just 0.3% in July compared with the same month in 2022, with the 60,045 vehicles registered bringing growth of just 162 units. And year-to-date retail registrations are...

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...

New car registrations jumped 18.2% in March compared with the same month in 2022, but the picture of the first quarter remains one where the bulk of the growth is in fleet, with private registrations...

UK new vehicle registrations surged ahead in February, rising 26.2% compared with the same month in 2022. But the vast bulk of the growth came in the fleet market, up 46.2%, while retail registrations...

Private new car registrations have started 2023 as they ended 2022, with another fall as the OEMs continue to prioritise fleet over retail. Private registrations finished the month down 4.3% on...

The story of new car registrations in 2022 is a tale of what might have been, with supply constraints leaving increased consumer demand unsatisfied. Heading into the new year, while supply chains are...

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...

In a strange set of October registrations figures, the continuation of September’s prioritisation of fleet by the OEMs was the least of the surprises. Perhaps more so was the strength of the...

A slight easing of new car supplies combined with the continued focus from the OEMs on the retail market saw private new car registrations increase 3.2% in August compared with the same month last...

Retail registrations were hit hard in June, down 21.7% compared with the same month last year. And that seems not to have been due to any rebalancing in favour of fleet, which was itself down 27.6%....

After gains in each of the first four months of the year, May saw a decline in retail registrations compared with the same month in 2021, falling 10.3%. Admittedly the gains each month had been...

April provided further evidence that OEMs are continuing to channel their still-limited production output into the retail channel, with private registrations of new cars up a further 4.8% in April...