SMMT News

New HGV market declines in 2017, falling -2.6% to 45,045 units. Artic market remains stable, up 0.8%, while demand for rigids drops -5.0%. Strong growth for refuse trucks, with demand up by more than a fifth, while dropsides also show…

Double-digit decline in new bus and coach market in 2017, down -12.7%. Registrations of minibuses, single-decks and double-decks all down, with 7,666 joining UK roads. Q4 registrations fall -15.9% to 1,688 units. The UK’s new bus and coach market fell…

Find out who has joined the premier automotive trade association and what they get from membership: New members – January 2018.

The UK’s new light commercial vehicle (LCV) market fell -4.2% in January 2018. The decline amounts to just 888 fewer vans being driven off forecourts in the first month of the year, compared with 2017.

January 2018 EV registrations Plug-In Car Grant: Since the launch of the Plug-In Car Grant in January 2011, there have been 130,553 eligible cars registered. Please note: this data includes only new car registrations and not commercial vehicles. For questions…

UK new car market declines in January – down -6.3%, as 163,615 cars leave showrooms.
Demand for petrol and alternatively fuelled vehicles rises, but fails to offset fall in new diesel registrations.
SUVs only vehicle segment to show growth, with 6.6% uplift leading to record market share.

British engine manufacturing rises 6.9% to all-time high of 2.7 million units in 2017

More than 78,000 commercial vehicles built in the UK in 2017, down -16.7% year on year.

1.67m cars built in the UK in 2017, a decline of -3.0% with production for domestic demand down -9.8%.
Car exports remain at historically high level, down just -1.1% with 1.34m shipped worldwide – 79.9% of total production.
British engine manufacturing at record-ever levels, with 2.72m produced, up 6.9% on 2016.

SMMT released figures for December 2017 pre-registrations in the UK new car market. The data shows the number of cars disposed of by vehicle manufacturers in December 2017 that were defined as pre-registrations. CLICK HERE: Download the December 2017 release.