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Used car transactions fall -14.9% in 2020 with 6,752,959 units changing hands as coronavirus lockdowns curb activity. Weak end to year with Q4 transactions down -6.2% to round off a turbulent 2020 for the UK used car market. Alternatively fuelled…

UK light commercial vehicle (LCV) market grows 2.0% in January, with 24,029 vehicles registered.

Just 90,249 new cars registered in January – the worst start to a year since 1970 despite click and collect preventing greater fal
New emissions figures show 2020 delivered the cleanest vehicles in history as average CO2 emissions fell by -11.8% on previous year, but more to do to deliver net zero
Industry needs showrooms open at earliest opportunity once safe to do so, to protect jobs and accelerate zero emission vehicle transition

UK engine manufacturing down -27.0% in 2020 to just over 1.8 million units.

British commercial vehicle production falls -15.5% in 2020 to just 66,116 units, the lowest annual output since 1933.

UK car manufacturing output falls -29.3% in 2020 to 920,928 units, the lowest total since 1984.
Production for UK and overseas markets declines -30.4% and -29.1% but more than eight in 10 cars still head abroad.
Latest independent outlook forecasts car output to reach one million units in 2021, but much depends on Covid recovery, market confidence and new cross-channel rules.

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The news that the UK will be home to additional battery production in the North East is hugely positive and an essential step in the transformation of the automotive sector to electric motoring.

For the third year in a row, grey remains the UK’s favourite new car colour, followed by black and white.
Yellow increases its market share by 50% but red suffers its worst year since 1997.
Grey is top shade for both petrol and diesel cars, while white most in demand for BEVs, and black for PHEVs.