NEWS

LAND Rover reports a second consecutive month of sales increases, after a successful September performance.
7185 new Land Rovers were sold, a 27 percent increase on September 2008.
This total also ensures the UK remains the world’s largest market for Land Rovers.
But it’s the individual performances that really stand out. Discovery sales were up by nearly [...]

SEAT is chuffed to announce record LOWS for September, as well as breaking a number of decade-long highs.
A 40 percent market share boost has seen the UK become SEAT’s most important export market in the whole of Europe.
It’s currently holding 1.5 percent of the UK market – that’s the firm’s largest slice of the market [...]

NISSAN has used scrappage to push its market share above 4 percent, for the first time in 6 years.

The UK-producing Japanese firm says key to this success are models built by the Sunderland factory – a staggering 82 percent of Nissans sold here last month were also built here.
16,908 sales helped snare it the seventh-best [...]

TOYOTA and Hyundai are two more car makers to claim record results during September’s sales boom.
Indeed, Toyota claims to have broken no less than FOUR records!
It scored its best-ever monthly retail volume, passenger car retail volume, market share for plate change month and retail share for the same month.
Retail volume of 17,267 has given the [...]

FORD won big in September – it not only sold more cars than anyone else, its sales boost was twice the UK average!
Sales for the blue oval were up a massive 22 percent on September 2008.
That equates to 54,500 new Fords being sold during the month – which saw the firm take nearly 16 [...]

ALFA Romeo is pleased to join the September scrap sales success party, with eye-opening figures.

Nearly 2000 Alfa Romeos were registered in September – a rise of nearly 150 percent!
OK, the numbers were perhaps too small to be truly representative, but they are still a clear sign of the strides being made by the Italian brand.
To [...]

SEPTEMBER’S big sales increase is ‘largely due to the vehicle scrappage scheme,’ says the RMI.
Director Sue Robinson praised the Government for responding to calls from car dealers.
‘The Government’s response to RMI pressure to extend the scheme is stimulating the motor industry as a whole.
‘Car dealers are reporting that the scheme is continuing to provide [...]

UK car registration figures just released by the SMMT show an 11.4% rise for September - again, thanks to scrappage.
The figures are the THIRD monthly rise in a row, and are a further boost to new car dealers.
367,929 new cars were sold in the key sales month of September, as car buyers responded to the [...]

SEPTEMBER 2009 new car sales took the year-to-date total up to 1,517,039, with Ford’s Fiesta topping the chart.
The figures are still 15 percent behind last year’s numbers, but the decline is far lower than many feared.
At this point last year, 1,794,419 new cars had been sold. In 2009, it is the decline in fleet sales [...]

FALLS in used car prices are on the horizon for the last quarter of 2009, warn price experts Glass’s.
Right now, they’re stable, after rocketing earlier in the year – but risk dropping as winter approaches, by around 2 and 4 percent.
It’s a big contrast to spring 2009, says managing editor Adrian Rushmore, where the [...]