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 of future sector challenges”. It also produced an ‘upside’ 2025 forecast of 2.3m units and a ‘downside’ of 1.74m.
The baseline predictions suggested quarters one and four would be the hardest of 2025, with respective year-on-year drops of 1% to 540,091 units and 2% to 449,616.
