Monday 7 January 2007 – SMMT’s new chief executive Paul Everitt published registration figures for the 2007 market for cars, vans and trucks. Here is a glimpse of some of the coverage.
Sean O’Grady, economics editor of the Independent wrote that ‘car sales have bucked trend with 2.4 million registrations in 2007.’
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article3318502.ece
Mark Milner, industrial editor of the Guardian commented on how new car sales have escaped the credit crunch – for now – and also on the drop in tailpipe CO2 from new cars.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jan/08/automotive
You can listen again to Paul Everitt’s Radio 4 Today interview until Sunday 13 January. Just choose the 7:00-7:30 time slot.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/monday.shtml
And, John Griffiths wrote in the FT about the commercial vehicle market, and how it’s defying the gloom.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f0c91430-bd74-11dc-b7e6-0000779fd2ac.html
