Great Britain: 2021 market and production forecasts
- The UK light vehicles market - Passenger Cars (PC) + Light Utility Vehicles (LUV) - reached 1,923,721 units in 2020, down 28.1% compared to 2019, which is a very poor performance as most European countries recorded much better figures, the European average being around 23.5%.
- For passenger cars, with 1,630,000 units, the UK market is back in 2020 to the 70s level. And for the first time in more than 40 years, the UK passenger car market is lower in volume than the French market in 2020.
- Again in the passenger car market in 2020, the Volkswagen group remains largely the leader with 374,738 units (23.0% market share), far ahead of the PSA groups (183,068 units; 11, 2%), BMW (161,585 units; 9.9%) and Ford (152,777 units; 9.4%). Following are the Renault-Nissan groups (142,771 units; 8.8%) and Hyundai-Kia (118,044 units; 7.2%).
- 2021 should be a year of transition in Europe, with a slow and gradual exit from the situation known in 2020. This will a priori induce a moderate recovery in sales. The British light vehicles market could therefore represent 2,108,314 units, up 10% compared to 2020.
- For production forecasts in 2021, Britain would slightly decrease from 970,000 units in 2020 to 960,000 in 2021, which represents a drop of 1% in one year. This relative stabilization of production is mainly explained by the shutdown of production at the Honda plant in Swindon (Honda Civic transferred to Japan) and the PSA plant in Ellesmere Port (Opel Astra transferred to Germany) which will not offset the revival of production from other carmakers.
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