UK car sales fall for 5th month running
Breaking! Britain’s car industry has suffered its fifth monthly fall in sales.
New car registrations shrank by 6.4% in August, extending a sales decline that began in April and has fuelled worries over the UK economy.
It means that sales in 2017 are 2.4% lower than a year ago, with 1,640,241 new cars joining British roads since January.
9h ago 09:20 Diesel sales slide by 21% Diesel bore the brunt of the sales decline in August, the SMMT says: Demand for petrol hybrid and pure electric battery powered cars increased substantially, up 74.9% and 62.5%, while plug-in hybrid registrations rose 38.5%. Conventional petrols grew 3.8% and diesels fell -21.3%.
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