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Securing a Brexit deal to protect Britain’s biggest exporter must be next leader’s top priority, urges SMMT, as first-ever UK auto trade report highlights importance of £101bn trading powerhouse.1
New calculations reveal potential £50,000-a-minute cost of hard Brexit border delays to UK automotive manufacturers.
Loss of Automotive would force UK out of Top 10 global exporter rankings behind Belgium, Mexico, Canada and Russia.

New era for British-Chinese automotive sector collaboration as SMMT signs Co-operation Agreement with China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). Arrangement builds on the strong and long-standing relationship between the world’s largest automotive market and the UK, Europe’s fourth biggest vehicle…

UK new van registrations up 5.4% in May, the fifth consecutive month of growth. Strong growth for smaller vans, demand up 14.0%, but pickups stall, down -1.8%. Year-to-date, market remains robust with more than 156,000 new LCVs registered. SEE LCV…

UK new car registrations fall -4.6% in May with 183,724 units registered.
Demand for petrol and AFV vehicles increases, but diesel registrations fall -18.3%
Year-to-date market broadly stable, down -3.1% with 33,000 fewer cars registered compared with 2018.
Meanwhile, the underlying economic and political instability continues to affect consumer and business confidence.

UK automotive supply chain plugs in to electrification opportunities at SMMT Open Forum.

British engine manufacturing falls -23.4% in April as UK car plant Brexit shutdowns affect demand. Production for home and international markets down -41.1% and -12.8% respectively. Exports drive production, with seven in 10 engines shipped to overseas factories. Mike Hawes,…

UK commercial vehicle manufacturing declines -70.9% in April, with 2,162 units produced.
Output for home market falls -27.1%, while exports decline -89.9%.
Year-to-date records positive performance, up 10.3% on the same period last year.

UK car production falls -44.5% in April with 56,999 fewer units built in extraordinary month.
Manufacturing for home and overseas markets down, by -43.7% and -44.7% respectively.
Year to date performance shows underlying downward trend, with April 11th consecutive month of decline.
SMMT repeats call for urgent action to end Brexit deadlock and prevent ‘no deal’ devastation.

SMMT released figures for April pre-registrations in the UK new car market. The data shows the number of cars disposed of by vehicle manufacturers in March 2019 that were defined as pre-registrations. Download the April 2019 release