New Car Sales Up For January 2007

Published Date: 15th Feb 2007

 The Society of Motoring Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has reported a good start for new car registrations for the first month in 2007: -

  • January new car registrations up 5.2% to 165,603 units
  • Supermini registrations rise by 18.7% to 54,918
  • Diesel registrations up 11.7% with 66,121 units registered in January
  • Ford Focus remains top seller, with 11,152 registrations

‘With a rise of 5.2%, new car registrations in January showed an encouraging start to 2007.    This was the first increase in 3 months and the largest rise since December 2005’ said Chief Executive Christopher Macgowan.

‘The Supermini segment performed outstandingly well with an increase of 18.7% in new car registrations.  This possibly reflects buyers taking such things as fuel costs, CO2 performance and interest rate movements into account more and more when purchasing a new car’.

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