The story of new car registrations in 2022 is a tale of what might have been, with supply constraints leaving increased consumer demand unsatisfied. Heading into the new year, while supply chains are...

A slight easing of new car supplies combined with the continued focus from the OEMs on the retail market saw private new car registrations increase 3.2% in August compared with the same month last...

After last month’s fall, retail registrations for July stabilised in comparison with the same month last year, with 59,847 vehicles registered. While only seven more than in July 2021, which was...

Retail registrations were hit hard in June, down 21.7% compared with the same month last year. And that seems not to have been due to any rebalancing in favour of fleet, which was itself down 27.6%....

After gains in each of the first four months of the year, May saw a decline in retail registrations compared with the same month in 2021, falling 10.3%. Admittedly the gains each month had been...

Former Aston Martin designer Miles Nurnberger is now director of design at Dacia, a move that few industry-watchers saw coming. Why did he make the move? Because of the untapped potential it has, he...

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Registrations of new vehicles grew again in June, but the 28% rise represents a somewhat false picture given the Covid impact on 2020 figures. A more meaningful comparison is the previous decade...

The Dacia Spring is Europe’s best-value electric car. Prices in France, before incentives, start from around £14,500 – which could mean a UK price from £12,000. Great value for a five-door,...

Lockdown has seen another poor month for registrations, depressing the market ahead of the crucial March plate-change. Retail registrations were down 37.3% in February compared with the same month...

Toyota Kinto Europe is a new mobility company owned by Toyota Motor Europe and Toyota Financial Services that launches in April 2021 – and every retailer will be given the opportunity to join the...

The UK new car market for 2018 finished 6.8% down on 2017, with annual registrations falling to 2,367,147 – a second year of decline. In December, a fall in private registrations of 3.8% and a drop...

This month alone we’ve seen Ford, RRG Mazda and Mercedes paying for floor space in big retail centres to put their cars in front of shoppers walking between Next and Nandos, and many others (eg MG...

Head of Dacia UK and Ireland Louise O’Sullivan believes her close work with retailers as area manager in the early 2000s has proven invaluable in her role today leading the growing value brand....

Citroen head of product and pricing Mike Wilson says there were two options to maintain its position in the mid-size family hatchback segment, ahead of new product arriving in a few years’ time. He...

From zero to hero in five years, culminating in topping Jersey’s manufacturer sales charts. Dacia, through the efforts of Falles Motor Group in general and the Bagot Road Garage in particular, has...

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Vincent Tourette, the recently appointed boss of Renault and Dacia in the UK, is spending his initial time running the company examining the business as a whole, but has already identified a host of...