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Good news! The UK car industry sold 35,847 more cars in 2010 than it did in 2009.
Bad news! The market is expected to drop by five per cent next year. This could be because it now costs ten pints of blood for a loaf of bread, but whatever.
View the UK's top ten best-selling cars of 2010
All in all, the UK snapped up 2,030,846 new cars last year. SMMT, the organisation that supports the UK car industry also revealed that ‘diesel penetration' - no laughing at the back - rose to 46.1 per cent last year; the highest number of diesel models sold in ten years.
Average new car CO2 emissions also dropped last year, ending on 144.2g/km. To give perspective, just two years ago the average was around 157g/km, and in 2000 CO2 figures averaged at 181g/km. Soon they'll emit nothing but the soothing sound of elevator music.
You can guess what came in at number one (because there's a mighty big picture of it above with a man you may recognise) and you'd probably be able to guess at least five of the top ten. But why waste valuable thinking power when you can click on our gallery instead?
Once you've done that, let us know if you'll be buying a new or used car this year, and crucially, what it is. We want to congratulate/mock you.
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StigsIrishCousn commented on this article
at 12:37 pm on 07 January 2011
So I just got 5 out of 10 right (embarrassingly I forgot about the Astra!) but was really surprised at the 207, must have some great discounts on it in the UK. Surprised that there was no big saloon like the Mondeo, Insignia or Passat and it's interesting that crossovers when done well can sell well, the Squishy being a good example of what can be an annoying trend in car makers. Would have expected something like a Zafira in there too and surprised as well that there were no Renaults, obviously these aren't marketed as aggressively as they are in Ireland. The lack of a Skoda just shows ignorance and snobbery! Clearly not enough people read Top Gear to know of the brilliance of the Yeti and Superb.
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StigsIrishCousn commented on this article
at 12:45 pm on 07 January 2011
As a matter of interest here's a list from September 2010 as what was selling best in the Republic of Ireland, haven't got official full year figures yet. Note the prevalence of Toyota, or as I see them farmers' cars, reliable, wipe clean, sturdy. Renault and Skoda did very well out of our scrappage scheme, but these would be popular anyway. Opel has really lost ground in market share in a big way, I'd imagine they were third behind Ford and Toyota not long ago but for some reason are not ticking people's boxes. 1) Ford Focus ? 3,556 2) Volkswagen Golf ? 3,534 3) Ford Fiesta ? 3,447 4) Nissan Qashqai ? 3,299 5) Toyota Avensis ? 3,266 6) Renault Megane ? 3,131 7) Renault Clio ? 2,625 8) Skoda Octavia ? 2,362 9) Volkswagen Polo ? 2,293 10) Toyota Yaris ? 2,268
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StigsIrishCousn commented on this article
at 12:48 pm on 07 January 2011
And here's the manufacturers list (not total year). Yes we prefer Hyundais to Audis in Ireland, we are that classy! 1) Ford ? 10,393 2) Toyota - 9,824 3) Volkswagen ? 9,355 4) Renault ? 7,642 5) Opel ? 6,131 6) Nissan ? 5,159 7) Skoda ? 4,491 8) Peugeot ? 2,826 9) Hyundai ? 2,763 10) Audi ? 2,686
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mingachimp commented on this article
at 01:03 pm on 07 January 2011
stigsirish cousin GET A LIFE
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youknowI'mright commented on this article
at 02:11 pm on 07 January 2011
I tried to buy a Eagle-i-HamThrust at my local Audi dealership. I was unsuccessful. They gave me an R8 to shut up
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