{"id":3970,"date":"2012-11-07T08:09:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T08:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2012-11-07T08:09:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T08:09:48","slug":"new-van-registrations-down-8-1-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/3970","title":{"rendered":"New Van Registrations Down 8.1% In October"},"content":{"rendered":"

New van registrations fell once more in October, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT<\/a>), dropping 8.1% compared to October 2011 and giving a 6.5% fall for the year to date.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, as I predicted last month<\/a>, September’s 1% gain was only down to the ’62’ plate change and we are now back to normality. Van registration remain below both 2010 and 2011 levels and are 3.6% down on a rolling year basis.<\/p>\n

Despite truck registrations (>3.5t) being up 13% on the year to date, they also fell by 8.1% in October, and as the graph below shows, van and truck registrations appear to be drooping as we approach the end of 2012:<\/p>\n

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Commercial vehicle registrations 2007 - October 2012 (courtesy of SMMT)<\/p><\/div>\n

Van registrations fell in all categories of except for the pick-up and 4×4 categories (which are included as light commercial vehicles). Pick-up registrations rose by 18.7% in October, while 4×4 registrations gained 9.5%.<\/p>\n

Truck registrations were dragged down by big falls in the 3.5t – 6.0t category (which remains up 41% on the year to date) and the 3-axle artic category, where sales fell by 19.6% in October, taking the fall for the year to date to 8.8%. Registrations rose in all of the other truck categories.<\/p>\n

Ford Remains Dominant<\/h3>\n

Ford hit the news recently when it announced the closure of its Ford Transit plant<\/a> in Southampton<\/a>, but it remains the dominant manufacturer in the UK’s light commercial vehicle market, with 29.4% of market share in October and 26.7% for the year to date.<\/p>\n

In second place, Volkswagen has arond 12.5% of the market, just above Luton<\/a>-based Vauxhall, which has around 11%.<\/p>\n

Peugeot, Mercedes, Citroen and Renault account for a further 31% of the market, followed by Nissan, Toyota, Fiat, Land Rover, Mitsubishi and Iveco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van registrations fell by 8.1% in October, resuming their downwards path after the 62 plate change, as I predicted in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1212,310,1328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3974,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions\/3974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}