The UK car market is the only major European market to grow in 2013
- The UK car market saw its sales increase by 10.8% in 2013 to 2 264 737 passenger cars and thus has caught up with part of the market decline that occurred between 2004 and 2011 when this market lost 500 000 units.
- Drastic cuts in vehicle prices have encouraged good market growth in 2013, which began the previous year (+5.3%), but following years will be probably harder.
- Inovev expects a trend reversal from 2014, as manufacturers will not hold long at this rate because of excessive price cuts affecting their margins.
- The leader of the British market in 2013 remains the Volkswagen group (20% market share), followed by the ex-leader Ford (14%) which has gradually offloaded brands such as Jaguar, Land Rover, Volvo and Aston Martin. The GM group (Vauxhall) is third, ahead of the BMW group (8%) that benefited from the success of the Mini brand well known in England, last comes the PSA group (8%) that since the 80’s brought back the assets of the former Rootes-Chrysler group.
-The model the most sold in 2013 in the UK market was the Ford Fiesta (121 929 units) in front of the Ford Focus (87 350 units), Vauxhall Corsa (84 275 units) and the Vauxhall Astra (68 070 units).
