The yearly new car registrations in the UK decreased by 34.9% in June – the smallest drop experienced since February, as reported by Reuters. This coincided with car showrooms reopening across the UK in the same month.
There were a total of 145, 377 new UK car registrations in June 2020, according to figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) on 6 July 2020.
While this is a significant build upon the 89% decrease experienced in May, this is in stark contrast to the year-to-date figures, which decreased by 48.5%.
There were only 653,502 new cars on UK roads in the first half of the year – the last time numbers were this low was in 1971. In comparison, there were 1,269,245 new cars when looking at the 2019 year-to-date figures.
In England, it was possible for car showrooms to reopen on 1 June, shortly followed by Northern Ireland, where car showrooms were expected to reopen from 8 June.
The rest of the UK saw a delay in the easing of coronavirus-related restrictions: Welsh dealerships were allowed to reopen on 22 June, while Scottish dealers were able to reopen on 29 June.
Interestingly, insurance startup Cuvva experienced a 76% increase between April 2020 and May 2020 from customers using it to either test drive a car or drive a recently bought car home.
via https://www.AiUpNow.com/ by Scarlett Cook, Khareem Sudlow
