Used Car Industry News and Resources

During the important plate change month of September, expectations of sales of the new 62 plates were smashed, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Registration of new cars was at 359,612, which is a growth of 8.2% from last year. This is around 26,000 more vehicles than expected by the SMMT. Typically a busy month for car sales, September was the second best...

According to a new report by retailer of car parts Halfords, many motorists are having to make sacrifices to parts of their style of living, in order to keep their cars healthy and on the road. Others are abstaining from proper vehicle maintenance, in an attempt to save money. The report shows that more than four in five (84%) of motorists class their car as 'essential to daily life'. Deart...

A modified Lotus Exige named 'Nemesis', which has been refashioned and tinkered with by green electricity firm Ecotricity, broke the UK land speed record for an electric car on Thursday 27th September. The Nemesis clocked in at 151mph for an average speed, during the event at the Elvington airfield near York. The Nemesis was driven by Nick Ponting, a 21-year-old go-kart driver who...

Aston Martin, the Warwickshire-based British luxury car manufacturer founded in 1913, has recently been named the 'coolest' car brand in Britain, by 'brand experts' CoolBrands. Aston Martin had topped the list for six of the seven years of it's lifespan. Despite being overtaken by Apple and YouTube, Aston Martin has ma...

According to research from Sainsbury's Bank, about one in five adults in the UK will be in the market for a vehicle in the next six months. The recent research, conducted in the form of a survey, could correspond to 9.8 million possible car buyers, should the numbers be spread across the nation. In addition, 9% of the survey participants, which could conceivably relate to 4.3 million people...

After a straight 13 months of increases in the number of cars built, production of new vehicles in the UK decreased by 8.9 per cent in August, based on figures released recently by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). August is however customarily a quiet month for the automotive manufacturing industry, with plant maintenance work being undertaken during the holiday period...

In a recent study by website cleangreencars.co.uk, cars from manufacturer BMW have been shown to give the most power per amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere. By using the average values of CO2 released per kilometre, and the average brake horsepower (bhp) of a vehicle, the study looked at a number of different car manufacturers/models to ascertain the most efficiently powerful vehicl...

Moody's Investors Service, the ratings agency that provides international financial research, has predicted that car sales in Europe will carry on with it's downturn during the rest of this year and continuing in 2013. These predictions for a global vehicle sales slump are thought to be the result of languishing sales in China, and stagnant demand in Europe due to the ongoing eurozone crisi...

Steering issues with some recent Nissan vehicles, including the 2012 Qashqai, Qashqai+2 and NV200, have launched a recall of 51,000 cars in the UK, in order for the car giant to perform "precautionary" checks. The vehicles in question are thought to have been manufactured between February 27th 2012 and May 16th 2012, with about 7,000 of the Qashqai models being produced at Nissan's Sunderla...

The Trading Standards Institute (TSI) is warning used car buyers to not rely on printed copies of MOT documents when making purchases, as criminals are taking advantage of a failing in the new style certificates. The TSI are saying that the printed documents can be easily copied and doctored, and is appealing for motorists to check the status of their MOT using online services. This comes f...