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February car sales fall for 11th Month in a row

February car sales fall for 11th Month in a row

UK car sales have now fallen every month since George Osbourne’s VED changes -compared to the same month the previous year. Next month will likely show an even bigger % drop because March 2017 was boosted by...

January 2018 UK car sales

Heading into 2018 and the diesel slide continues. Far from being confused car buyers are shunning the fuel. Some of the fall is down to concern about future government action on diesel but buyers are also seeing real...

Diesel UK Market share-SMMT

UK Car sales fall by 5.6% in 2017 as diesel sales drop

UK car sales fell by 5.6% in 2017 but the big story is that car buyers preferences shifted from dirtier diesels which were down 17.1% in 2017. Meanwhile sales of petrol cars rose by 2.7% and AFVs including plugin...

UK diesel sales down to 37.7% market share in November

SMMT – car registrations data sales fell by 11.2% in November, the 8th consecutive month that sales have declined.   Meanwhile diesel sales comtinued to fall to 37.7% of the market from 48.3% in Nov 2016...