NEWS

MARCH 2010 has been a successful month for many brands but what about those that didn’t do so well?

Well, the top market share fall slots were dominated by beleaguered makers Corvette, Daihatsu and Hummer.
Indeed, Hummer barely exists at all, and Car Dealer Magazine was first to report the woes of Daihatsu here in the UK. [...]

SCRAPPAGE is continuing to impact the new car market with total registrations hitting 372,401 cars.
This was the figure at the end of March, meaning scrappage still accounted for 12.2 percent of new car registrations.
It is good news for the Government, which has been working to ensure no orders get ‘lost’ in the system and actual [...]

MARCH has been a positive month for new car sales, up 26.6 percent over March 2009, according to SMMT figures.
Hyundai sold over 15,000 cars in March alone, more than half the total number they sold in the whole of 2008.
Much of Hyundai’s success over the past year has been down to the scrappage scheme - [...]

CAR makers have rightly been falling over themselves to shout about their big new car sales gains for March…
But one car maker is shouting loudest of all – Renault.
The French brand has posted the greatest market share gain of all for March 2010, with Renault’s total shooting up a huge 1.8 percent. This puts the [...]

FORD refuses to be budged from the new car best-seller chart with the Fiesta retaining its 2010 crown.

23,681 Ford Fiestas were sold, to give it the market-leading honours.
What’s more, its margin of superiority over the 2nd-placed car was a staggering 5692 cars. And that runner-up car? Why, it was the Ford Focus…
Vauxhall came in 3rd [...]

NEW car registrations continued to rise in March with SMMT figures revealing a 26.6 percent increase in sales.
397,383 new cars were registered during the month.
Scrappage continued to have an effect, but it was not the key driver of sales: 12.2 percent of registrations were through scrappage.
Instead, growing fleet demand is helping keep sales strong. [...]

CAR production in the UK continues to skyrocket with February figures showing a huge 62.7 percent rise.
This is the 4th successive monthly rise.
Last month, 97,255 cars were built in the UK – and 70,482 of them were exported, which is good news for UK Balance of Payments figures.
‘The 4 month of consecutive growth in new [...]

GOVERNMENT chiefs have announced the 2010 Budget will be held on Wednesday 24 March.

Confirmation from Chancellor Alistair Darling has got immediate response from the SMMT.
In a pre-Budget submission, the SMMT called upon the Government to support long term investment for car makers and car dealers.
However, as the scrappage scheme ends, chief Paul Everitt has also [...]

CO2 emissions fell by the largest ever amount in 2009 thanks to the effects of the scrappage scheme.

The average new car emitted 149.5g/km CO2 – 21.2 percent less than in 1997. Furthermore, the average car sold under the scrappage scheme emitted just 133.3g/km, 26.8 percent less CO2 than the average scrapped car.
It’s also 5.4 percent [...]

FORD yet again leads the way for new car sales with latest February 2010 data giving it another 1-2.
The Fiesta topped the new car sales charts with 3236 units sold. Ford’s Focus was 2nd with 3035 sales.
In 3rd place, but more than 500 units behind, was the Volkswagen Golf with 2586 sales. That was [...]