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09.27: NEW car sales for October are currently under review – because the SMMT data shows NO sales for Toyota! The official spreadsheet released by the SMMT shows not a single registration for the Japanese brand. It is not yet clear whether this will lead to a change in the total registrations for October… … [...]

NEW car sales rises are being driven by small cars, reveals latest registration data from the SMMT. Supermini sales are up 47.9 percent in October – and city car sales are up an incredible 200 percent! This has seen 7 out of the top 10 best-sellers being superminis.  It also means there are some surprises. [...]

AUGUST is normally a quiet month for car dealers – but for some, it’s bucked a trend with rocketing interest! Hyundai car dealers, for example, recorded a staggering 322 percent rise in sales, chiefly thanks to the scrappage scheme. This has seen its i10 city car do the unthinkable, and appear on the top 10 [...]

FIAT Group is celebrating, after sales in August turned the clock back to 2001 for the three-brand maker. Sales rose by more than 85 percent year-on-year, to give the firm its biggest market share since May 2001. Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Abarth snared 5.14 percent of total UK sales – and even the 4.5 percent [...]

FORD sales outperformed the market three times over, says the blue oval – with market share increasing. The brand now commands 16.9 percent of the total new car market. That compares with 16.1 percent a year ago. What’s more, the new car market may well be up 6 percent – but Ford’s sales have rocketed [...]

NEW car sales continued to rise in August, with official figures revealing a 6% increase, according to the SMMT. The big winner was Hyundai, whose baby i10 has leapt to THIRD PLACE OVERALL in the sales charts – overtaking the Vauxhall Corsa. Even more significantly, the brand is TOP for overall retail sales – beating [...]

NEW car sales charts for June show some big winners and losers, within a market down 15 percent. Most eye-opening revelation is that both Hyundai and Kia have chalked up massive sales increases! Hyundai is up a mighty 91 percent, with Kia also booming through a 60 percent rise. Even bigger gains are recorded from [...]

SCRAPPAGE is easing declining new car sales, with June recording the smallest fall since July 2008. The SMMT’s latest new car sales figures show that registrations were down 15.7 percent in June. 176,264 new cars were sold, with Ford’s Fiesta topping the pile. After year-on-year declines of nearly 25 percent in May, this shows the [...]

LATEST new car sales figures for May have been unveiled – with sales down by nearly 25 per cent. But the good news is the scrappage scheme is starting to have an effect, say the SMMT. Scrappage started on 18 May. Even before then, car dealers were reporting massive increases in interest and showroom traffic. [...]

WINNERS and losers have been revealed in official new car sales charts released by the SMMT for April. And the champagne corks continue to pop at Ford. Not only has the maker posted but a minimal sales decline of just over 3 percent, it has also continued to grow market share. The blue oval boasts [...]

LATEST SMMT new car sales figures show the gloom continues for car dealers, with a decline of 24% over 2008. The latest figures, just released to Car Dealer Magazine, reveal just how important incentives such as the scrappage scheme are. April’s figures mark the 11th straight fall in new car registrations: the market in 2009 [...]

CAR sales are suffering as a result of the weak UK economic conditions, say the country’s car dealers. The RMIF says March’s decline of 30.5 percent is entirely down to consumers lacking confidence because of the economy. ‘Car dealers are the front line of the car industry, and are seeing that consumer car buying patterns [...]

NEW car sales took a further hit in March – and it’s due to the lack of a new car scrappage scheme. SMMT chief Paul Everitt says the UK being the only European country NOT to have a scrap scheme in place is hurting car sales. ‘March new car registrations are a barometer of confidence [...]

NEW car sales were down nearly 22% in February, leading to renewed calls for a scrappage scheme. The SMMT points to evidence from Europe where such schemes are in place and already working. The call comes as the SMMT’s February figures show sales slipped further last month, down 21.9 per cent to 54,359 units. The diesel market [...]