New Car Sales Upturn Continues

Published Date: 17th Jul 2013

The positive trend continues with new car registrations in June growing by 13.4% meaning a 16th successive month of growth and total volumes for the first six months of 2013 over the one million mark.

The private sector has shown strong growth with private new car registrations up 17.1% overall in the first half of 2013, the latter months were very promising indeed with the second quarter of 2013 showing a 24.4% upturn and the month of June over 21% up.

Despite a difficult economy buyers continue to be tempted by the latest fuel-efficient brand new cars. Low rate new car finance deals are very attractive for potential buyers as are some of the discount online new car deals available on the internet.

Buyers can justify the purchase of a new vehicle with the latest vehicles offering excellent savings on running costs with lower emissions and cheaper road tax (in some cases new cars are road tax exempt), improved fuel economy and lower insurance bands.

Although over the year small cars and superminis like the ever popular Ford Fiesta have been the most popular vehicles in the UK, in June sales of MPV’s showed a big upturn. Petrol models have made something of a comeback with the development of some of the excellent new cutting-edge petrol engines and technology available, a prime example is Ford’s Ecoboost engine which has won numerous awards and accolades. The British public are also embracing ‘alternative fuel’ vehicles which showed a rise of in sales of 26% in June.