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July vehicle production figures

23 August 2007 #SMMT News #UK Manufacturing

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Cars

Commercial Vehicles

Total vehicles

SMMT Ltd

Jul-07

YTD 2007

Jul-07

YTD 2007

Jul-07

YTD 2007

Total

129,735

894,028

13,985

123,935

143,720

1,017,963

10.1%

-2.5%

-8.7%

2.1%

7.9%

-2.0%

Export

98,269

684,662

8,601

75,202

106,870

759,964

10.5%

-1.9%

-17.5%

-7.0%

7.6%

-2.4%

% of total

75.7%

76.6%

61.5%

60.7%

74.4%

74.6%

Home

31,466

209,366

5,384

48,733

36,850

258,099

8.8%

-4.7%

10.0%

20.1%

9.0%

-0.8%

% of total

24.3%

23.4%

38.5%

39.3%

25.6%

25.4%

Car production

‘UK car production in July saw favourable year-on-year growth of 10.1 per cent and continues the underlying trend of stabilisation’, said Christopher Macgowan, SMMT chief executive. ‘Having weathered the storms of new model introductions, a number of key car-makers have increased output and given a renewed edge to passenger car manufacturing in Britain.’

Commercial vehicle production

‘Legislative distortions in the heavy truck arena seem to have settled and we are at last seeing signs of growth in large commercial vehicle production in the UK’, said Christopher Macgowan, SMMT chief executive. ‘Taking all CV output into consideration, the modest rise in volumes, if sustained over the second half of the year, should result in an annual total of some 215,000 units.’

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