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UK Car market report – March 2019

The SMMT car sales details are in for March 2019 EV tipping point chart We are not expecting rising alternatively fuelled vehicle (AFV) or pure Electric Vehicle EV sales to overtake falling diesel cars until 2021 to...

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...

Will Philip Hammond’s 2017 budget matter for Diesel?

The UK Government unleashes RDE2 (not a droid from Star Wars) Motoring lobbyists, the car industry, the Sun Newspaper and some Conservative MPs will have patted themselves on the back after the Chancellor Philip Hammond...