UK Automobile Industry Facts and Statistics

UK AUT OMOBILE INDUSTRY FACTS AND STATISTICS The major factors driving car sales are grouwing consumer confidence and cheap finance deals. Cheap Finance Deals On average, the UK produces 1.5 million cars and commercial vehicles and over 2.5 million engines. Of these, around 80% of vehicles and 70% of engines are sold overseas. buying patterns are shifting towards smaller, more fuel-efficient models, with "supermini" vehicles taking the largest market share of 35.9% The UK has overtaken France as Europe's second largest car market behind Germany, having enjoyed 22 consecutive months of growth. Registrations of hybrid and plug-in cars rose 20.5% to 32,715 vehicles. The final numbers for the 2013 UK car market show a growth in the overall market to more than 2.25 million, a rise of more than 10 percent. There are around 2,350 UK companies that regard themselves as 'automotive' suppliers, employing around 82,000 people 10 UK Prime Minister | @Number10gov +2 Follow 5 key measures of manufacturing at all-time high & UK car sales top pre-2007 levels. See how we're growing UK economy gov.uk/uk-economy 6 Reply 13 Retweet * Favorite *. More TOP 10 CARS 2013 Ford fiesta Ford Focus 121,929 87,350 Vauxhall Corsa Vauxhall Astra Corsa 84,275 68,070 Volkswagen Golf Nissan Qashqai Golf 64,951 50,211 BMW 3 Series Volkswagen Polo M.ZJ423 43,494 42,609 BMW 1 Series Peugeot 208 41,883 38,616 Brought to you by: www.autoledshop.com AUTO LED SHOP Please refrain from copying any part of the infograph/content or the blog without our prior permission or without proper mention of our company name. Incase the content is copied without proper attribution, this will be considered as copyright infringement. IIIIIII IIIIIIII