The Vauxhall Corsa is the best-selling vehicle in the UK in March and YTD. The UK new car market posts its first year-on-year gain since last August at +11.5% to 283.964 units for the all-important month of March which coincides with new license plates. However the comparison base in March…
The Kia Niro is up to a record 6th place in February. As the country remains in lockdown and showrooms are closed, the UK new car market sinks -35.5% year-on-year to 51.312 units. This is the weakest February result since 1959 (41.471) and it leads to a year-to-date tally off…
The Kia Sportage is up to a record 2nd place in January. Picture autoexpress.co.uk A second national lockdown means the UK new car market freefalls -39.5% year-on-year in January to just 90.249 units, a loss of almost 60.000 sales. This is the weakest January volume since 1970 (84.807). Private sales drop…
The Volvo XC40 is up to #11 in the UK in 2020. Discover 55 years of UK Historical Data here. 02/08 update: Now with Top 150 models for the Full Year 2020 Under the impact of two separate Covid-19 lockdowns, new car sales in the UK fall -29.4% year-on-year in…
The new generation has had a massive impact on Vauxhall Corsa sales at home. As we have already seen for France, the second lockdown imposed in the UK across the month hampers the market -27.4% to just 113.781 units, the slowest November since 2008 (100.333). Again like France, the drop isn't…
The Mercedes A-Class signs its first ever victory in the UK. Picture carmagazine.co.uk According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), new car sales in the UK edge down -1.6% year-on-year in October to 140.945 units, the lowest October result since 2011 (134.944) and the 9th year-on-year decline out of…
The Vauxhall Corsa has topped the UK charts four times in the past year. New car sales in the UK remain in negative during the all-important September plate change month at -4.4% year-on-year to 328.041 following already weak scores in 2018 and 2019, making 2020 the weakest result for the…
The Ford Puma is up to a world-best 4th place in the UK in August. After lockdown pent-up demand was released in July (+11.3%), the UK new car market swings back into negative territory in August at -5.8% year-on-year to 87.226 units, yet still managing the second biggest August volume…
The Vauxhall Corsa signs a 4th UK win in the past 11 months. Thanks to pent-up demand accumulated over lockdown months and generous offers by most manufacturers, UK new car sales engineer a strong rally back in July with a sturdy 11.3% year-on-year gain to 174.887 units. Indeed according to…
The Peugeot 2008 ranks #18 in May in the UK vs. #82 so far in 2020. A full Top 160 UK models ranking is now available for the January-May 2020 period as well as a Top 100 models for May, allowing us a much more detail look at this market.…
Thanks to the new ZS EV, MG sales gain 22.7% in 2020. New car sales in the UK collapse -48.5% or 616.000 units to just 653.502 over the First Half of 2020. This is the lowest H1 volume in almost 50 years: since 1971 (623.483), at a time when the Austin…
First ever UK podium finish for the Toyota Yaris. Even though car showrooms were allowed to re-open in England on June 1, according to the National Franchised Dealers Association one in five remained shut throughout the entire month. As for Wales (June 22) and Scotland (June 29), the reopening date was…
Helped by the new Sportback variant, the Audi Q3 breaks into the UK Top 30 in 2020. A full Top 130 UK models ranking is now available for the January-April 2020 period, allowing us a much more detail look at this market. The Range Rover Evoque (#12) finds itself on…
The Volvo XC40 scores its very first UK Top 10 finish at #6. 20/07 update: Now with Top 160 YTD models and Top 100 May models. As we anticipated last month, May was the month the UK became the country most affected by the coronavirus pandemic in Europe, with 281.270…
The Jaguar i-Pace ranks #2 in the UK in April. Picture carmagazine.co.uk 8/06 update: Now with 2020 YTD Top 130 models. As we predicted a month ago based on COVID-19 infection rates, the nation-wide lockdown, implemented later than most European nations (on March 23), was extended and covered the entire…