New passenger car registrations

The UK new car market grew for the third year in a row in 2025, breaching the two million mark for the first time since the pandemic, with 2,020,520 new car registrations, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).

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Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. (2026). UK new car market breaches two million as almost one in four buyers go electric. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://www.smmt.co.uk/uk-new-car-market-breaches-two-million-as-almost-one-in-four-buyers-go-electric/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_20N775XFV2RSYTE7BXBB24RYMN

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Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. "UK new car market breaches two million as almost one in four buyers go electric." 2026, https://www.smmt.co.uk/uk-new-car-market-breaches-two-million-as-almost-one-in-four-buyers-go-electric/. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_20N775XFV2RSYTE7BXBB24RYMN.

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Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. "UK new car market breaches two million as almost one in four buyers go electric." 2026. https://www.smmt.co.uk/uk-new-car-market-breaches-two-million-as-almost-one-in-four-buyers-go-electric/. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_20N775XFV2RSYTE7BXBB24RYMN.

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@misc{smmt2026registrations24rymn, author = {{Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders}}, title = {UK new car market breaches two million as almost one in four buyers go electric}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_20N775XFV2RSYTE7BXBB24RYMN}, note = {Original source: https://www.smmt.co.uk/uk-new-car-market-breaches-two-million-as-almost-one-in-four-buyers-go-electric/. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }

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