Analysis

  • Registrations down 7.4% year-on-year in April.
    Discrepancy still accounted for by scrappage
    registrations.
  • Registrations in the first four months of 2011 down
    8.5% year-on-year.
  • SMMT
    forecasts new car registrations will fall 5% to 1.93m units this
    year, with a slower market in Q2 and recovery in
    Q3.
  • Private
    volumes down 23.5% year-on-year in April following the removal of
    scrappage, with overall volumes boosted by fleet and business
    demand.
  • Diesel
    cars represented 52.7% of April’s total market and have shown
    year-on-year growth in every month this year.
  • Alternatively-fuelled car
    registrations rose 48.1% in April.

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  1. Table showing the market share of different brandsFiesta
    6,755
  2. Golf
    4,973
  3. Astra
    4,900
  4. Corsa
    4,888
  5. Focus
    4,843
  6. Polo
    4,524
  7. Insignia
    3,912
  8. Quashqai
    3,738
  9. 3 Series
    3,133
  10. Passat
    2,720

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