UK Car Sales

Hybrid and plug-in hybrids like the MG S9 sport utility vehicle helped Chinese automakers take 11% of European sales in May, according to analysts

JLR is slowly resuming operations after the cyberattack forced the UK's largest carmaker to stop making any vehicles for more than five weeks

Britain's growing EV appetite contrasts with a 2 per cent decline in overall new-car registrations for August to 82,908 units, during what SMMT calls the "quietest month" for car sales

Car theft is a growing problem in the UK, as almost 130,000 vehicles were stolen in the year ending March 2024-near a 15-year high-costing insurers $867 million

Top European carmakers are betting on car sales to pick up over the year, despite cooling electric vehicle (EV) demand after several years of strong growth

Mayors of Paris, Madrid, Athens have said they plan to ban diesel vehicles from city centres by 2025

Car sales in Britain have previously been a leading indicator for the performance of the economy and last year's drop is the biggest since demand nosedived in 2009 after the financial crisis