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Sale Of New Cars And Vans Increase In UK

 

As with a lot of businesses, motor traders involved with the sale of new cars and vans in the UK have had a difficult period of trading for more than 12 months due to the pandemic. However, figures recently published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) for the year to date to 30th June 2021 reveal that numbers have increased in comparison to the same period in 2020 albeit the impact of COVID–19 needs to be borne in mind when looking at the figures.

 

On a year to date basis to the 30th June 2020, the number of new cars registered here in the UK amounted to 653,502 whereas, on a year to date basis to the 30th June 2021, the volume of new cars sold totalled 909,973 – a difference of 256,471 (+39.2%).

 

 

Conventional new petrol fuelled cars saw a rise in registrations in the first six months of 2021 in comparison to the same period last year – up from 392,608 to 442,583 (+ 12.7%). However, fewer conventional new diesel fuelled cars were registered in the first six months of this year when compared with the same period last year – 93,087 compared to 118,957 (-21.7%). The registration of all types of new electric cars showed a positive increase when comparing the same periods this year and last year.

 

Having broken the figures down to the private, fleet and business sectors, all revealed a positive increase in new car registrations when comparing both periods.

 

The top 3 selling new cars in the UK on a year to date basis to 30th June 2021 were: –

 

  1. Vauxhall Corsa 24,399
  2. Ford Fiesta 21,511
  3. Volkswagen Golf 19,608

 

 

Again, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), has recently published figures for the registration of new vans here in the UK. For the year to date to the 30th June 2021, the number of new vans sold in the up to 3.5t category totalled 191,513 whereas for the same period to the 30th June 2020 the figure was 108, 876 (+75.9%). One of the reasons why such an increase was seen was due to delivery businesses taking on more new vans to cope with an increase in online sales.

 

The top 3 selling new vans in the UK on a year to date basis to 30th June 2021 were: –

 

  1. Ford Transit Custom 26,978
  2. Ford Transit 17,644
  3. Volkswagen Transporter 12,586

 

 

It will be interesting to monitor the registration of new cars and vans here in the UK over the next few months as we hopefully see restrictions in relation to the coronavirus being eased/lifted.

 

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New Van Sales Continue To Drop

MercedesFor the third month in a row, the number of new vans registered here in the UK has fallen based upon data produced by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders for November 2017. Obviously this is most concerning for those people working in that particular part of the motor trade industry.

For the month of November 2017, the number of brand new vans up to 3.5 tonnes that were sold amounted to 26,486. This is considerably less when compared with November of last year when 29,784 new vans were sold. This is a reduction of 11.1%.

The biggest reduction in percentage terms was for smaller vans up to 2.0 tonnes with a reduction of 21.7%. This was followed with pickups with a fall of 14.4% and the third worst performer was 4x4s that fell by 10.0%.

On a year to date basis to November 2017 there were 334,133 new vans sold with this being a fall of 4.1% in comparison to the same period last year when 348,448 new vans were sold. Again, this is quite a large drop in sales.

The largest drop in percentage terms was 4x4s at 90.6% followed by smaller vans up to 2.0 tonnes at 20.3%. The sector that suffered the third worst fall was vans between 2.5 to 3.5 tonnes that fell by 3.9%.Ford Transit

Presumably, one of the reasons why the number of new vans being registered has fallen in recent months is due to a lack of business confidence here in the UK. The situation is unlikely to have been helped by the recent increase in the Base Rate as, for some of those businesses borrowing monies on a variable rate of interest, this will have increased a business’s expenditure.

The top five selling new vans in November 2017 were: –

1. Ford Transit Custom 3,501
2. Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2,142
3. Ford Transit 2,018
4. Volkswagen Transporter 1,825
5. Ford Transit Connect 1,733

The top five selling new vans on a year to date basis to November 2017 were: –

1. Ford Transit Custom 47,105
2. Ford Transit 25,388
3. Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 21,088
4. Volkswagen Transporter 19,988
5. Ford Transit Connect 18,400

It is pleasing to see that three of those new vans featuring in the top five selling vehicles were manufactured by Ford. At least this is one positive statistic in relation to the number of new vans being sold here in the UK.

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