Analyst predicts two million new car sales in UK in 2025

Cox Automotive expects a 3.6% rise over 2024 in a challenging year for the UK market The UK market will hit 2.04 million car sales in 2025, a 3.6% increase on 2024 but 11.6% less than the 2000-2019 average, a leading industry analyst has forecast. Cox Automotive described those figures – its baseline prediction – as “an indication

Dealers' margins squeezed by EV shift, greater consumer protection

The lower-margin business of new car sales has traditionally been supplemented by aftersales, finance and insurance Dealers are facing a profit-margin squeeze from the double whammy of the transition to EVs threatening their lucrative aftersales business and a legal clampdown curtailing profitable commissions for selling finance and insurance (F&I). Dealers rely on both

Maserati GranCabrio review

Need a genuine four-seater, £170,000 luxury convertible for the school run? Maserati has you covered The Maserati GranCabrio is one of the last remaining examples of the four-seat luxury convertible: one of those concepts that’s probably more appealing on paper - or in some romantic, coming-of-age road trip movie, perhaps -

Audi A1

Audi’s chic supermini promises class-leading luxury and sportiness - but is it past its prime? The second-generation Audi A1 promised to introduce hitherto unseen levels of luxuriousness and sportiness to the supermini class when it launched in 2019, in spite of its more mundane, Volkswagen-based origins and underpinnings.Ingolstadt has a long