China's car manufacturing giant Chery is preparing to launch its second UK new car brand just months after sales begin of its launch brand, Omoda.
The UK new car market enjoyed its best November for four years with registrations staging a near return to pre-pandemic levels
The e-commerce giant Amazon has announced that its USA operation will begin online sales of new cars in 2024.
Rapid growth in fleet segment new car sales is a sign of carmakers' return to their traditional habits of large volume incentives and increased supply to car rental companies.
Polestar, Cupra, Volkswagen and Kia are among the brands picked out in our analysis of the September 2023 new car registrations in the UK.
Data for the August new car market shows that Tesla was the ninth most in-demand car brand, ahead of the likes of Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot, MG Motor and Volvo.
Following other countries' lead and giving vehicle manufacturers with UK production plants a financial helping hand to make their EVs affordable to more drivers makes sense, argues AM's regular columnist Professor Jim Saker, emeritus professor of Loughborough University's business school and president of the Institute of the Motor Industry. But he's not holding his breath waiting for it to happen.
Toyota Lexus, which have offered hybrid petrol-electric powertrains since the 1990s and were among the first to move away from diesel last decade, face a "very difficult" short-term challenge in the UK Government's proposed zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) mandate.
Analyst David Francis dives into the first half of 2023's new car registrations, and ponders has Ford handed the gold model to Volkswagen in ending the Fiesta, and why is Polestar a hotter prospect than Tesla?
The market share of new BEVs (battery electric vehicles) across Europe in April was three percentage points higher than April 2022, representing 13% of the total 960,191 units new car sales.
New car supply constraints are starting to ease, just as consumers are curbing spending amid high inflation, according to Bloomberg.
The UK new car market grew by 11.6% in April and the SMMT has now revised its 2023 outlook to a predicted 1.83 million vehicles.
Cox Automotive has revised its UK new car market forecast to a 13.5% uplift in new car sales in 2023.
Thoughts about the risk of distress sales caused by governments that set short-sighted and disruptive targets to rapidly shift consumer habits from AM's regular columnist Professor Jim Saker, director of the Centre for Automotive Management at Loughborough University's business school and president of the Institute of the Motor Industry.
Carmakers aiming to switch to direct-to-consumer new car sales through agency agreements with their dealers are expected to defer or even abandon their plans by three-in four AM-online poll respondents.
The Government has pledged to stick to its plan to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 as it revealed its Powering Up Britain strategy to transform the UK’s energy infrastructure.
Discounts of up to 16% are being offered on new cars at UK retailers, ahead of the March plate-change.
Deep analysis of 2022's UK new car market shows parental lineage gives no guarantees when ambitious new car brands like MG and Kia can go the distance
A selection of Q4 new car finance offers come under scrutiny for affordability and competitiveness.
The lead time for orders of new electric vehicles has increased since August, according to new research from Electrifying.com.
