December 2012 And 2012 Year End United Kingdom Auto Sales By Brand
Not Their Biggest Seller, But Land
Rover’s Defender Is Positively British
Residents of the United Kingdom registered 2.04 million new vehicles in the twelve months of 2012, a 5.3% improvement over 2011. Car registrations in the UK haven’t been this high since 2008 when, at the time, sales had reached what was thought to be a low point.
December 2012 was predictably the third-lowest sales month of the year. We won’t spend much time analyzing December numbers, but it should be noted that BMW outsold Volkswagen in the final month of the year. Among major brands, BMW’s 35% year-over-year increase in December was topped only by Kia, Honda, and Fiat.
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Day 219 — UKMTO reported a tanker struck in the strait on Oct 5 with an engine-room fire, no casualties reported (via gCaptain). The strait remains closed.
Day 219: UKMTO reports more tankers struck in the strait; the WHO counts 959 killed in Yemen since August.
