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UNITED KINGDOM -
Snobs still shopping |
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Britain’s car market unexpectedly bounced
back in this year’s opening quarter, thanks
entirely to a 1.8 per cent rise in sales in what
generally ranks as Britain’s best selling car
sales month, marking the first rise in sales in
five months. Instead of the widely expected
small sales lag at the first quarter stage,
Britain’s car market rose by just under 1 per
cent to 563,556 units For a country mired by a double-dip recession, Britain’s car market has held up well. In a month when growing numbers of Britain’s confidence-sapped consumers were expected to steer well clear of richly stocked car showrooms, it comes as a surprise to some that private rather than business buyers were responsible for the encouraging small uplift in March sales. That’s born out by figures showing that just over half the cars bought in March were driven off dealer forecourts by private buyers. That’s a 7.4 per cent rise in sales, which more than made up for a small dip in fleet sales
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