The Ford Puma is the best-selling vehicle in the UK in November.
156,525 new cars hit UK roads in November, a 9.5% year-on-year uptick and back to the pre-pandemic level of November 2019 (156,621). Note 2019 was the weakest November in 7 years. The year-to-date tally is now up a stellar 18.6% to 1,761,962, but still far below the 2,162,143 units of the 11 months of 2019. Private sales drop -5.9% year-on-year this month to 60,506 and 38.7% share vs. 45% a year ago and it’s fleet sales that single-handedly pull the market up at +25.4% to 93,049 and 59.4% share vs. 51.9% in November 2022. Business sales are down -32.7% to 2,970 and 1.9% share vs. 3.1%. Year-to-date, the picture is similar with private sales weak (+1%) at 773,807 and 43.9% share vs. 51.6% over the first 11 months of 2022 and fleet sales strong (+39.1%) at 947,422 and 53.8% share vs. 45.8% a year ago, the two channels having exchanged market shares year-on-year. Business sales edge up 6.2% to 40,733 and 2.3% share vs. 2.6%.
As for propulsion type, diesel sinks -16.8% to 4,663 units and 3% share vs. 3.9% a year ago, petrol gains 7.4% to 61,875 and 39.5% share vs. 40.3% last year, MHEVs are up 21.4% to 29,232 and 18.7% share vs. 16.8%, BEVs actually drop -17.1% on a particularly strong year-ago volume to 24,359 and 15.6% share vs. 20.6%, PHEVs soar 55.8% to 15,871 and 10.1% share vs. 7.1% and HEVs gain 27.8% to 20,525 and 13.1% share vs. 11.2%. Year-to-date, diesel is down -15.7% to 66,610 and 3.8% share vs. 5.3% over the same period in 2022, petrol is up 12.5% to 720,124 and 40.9% share vs. 43.1%, MHEVs are up 22.8% to 336,578 and 19.2% share vs. 18.5%, BEVs are up 27.5% to 286,846 and 16.3% share vs. 15.1%, PHEVs up 38.8% to 129,149 and 7.3% share vs. 6.3% and HEVs up 27.8% to 222,655 and 12.6% share vs. 11.7%.
Source: SMMT
Looking at the brands ranking, Volkswagen (-2.4%) stays on top but BMW (+16.9%) is catching up at 7.7% share, its highest since February 2022 (7.8%). Ford (+2.4%) stays at #3 and Audi (+2.2%) drops two spots on last month to #4, both posting disappointing results. Vauxhall (+39.5%) is catching up on lost ground with 5.9% of the market vs 5.4% over the first 11 months of the year. Toyota (+6%) is muted at #6 while Mercedes (+48%) scores the largest gain in the Top 10. MG (+35%) is also very robust at #10. Below, Peugeot (+144.3%), Renault (+84%) and Cupra (+75.4%) all impress. Notice also Tesla down a searing -72.6% to #26 with just 1.1% share.
Model-wise, the Ford Puma (+78.5%) surges ahead to hold onto the top spot like it does year-to-date (+39.4%). The Vauxhall Corsa (+65%) also manages a mighty gain to climb to 2nd place overall but remains at #3 year-to-date below the Nissan Qashqai (-27%) devastated year-on-year but back up to #3 for the month vs. outside the Top 10 in October. The Mini (+6.5%) is weak year-on-year but at #4 with 2.3% share it does much better than year-to-date (#7 and 1.7%). The Ford Kuga (+42.8%) and Kia Sportage (+39.9%) are very strong below while the Vauxhall Mokka is back inside the Top 10 at #7. The MG HS is up to #8 and the VW Golf signs its first Top 10 finish of the year at #9. The Tesla Model Y implodes at -76.4% and drops to #6 year-to-date.
Previous month: UK October 2023: Ford Puma leads, BMW 1 Series and Peugeot 2008 at record levels
One year ago: UK November 2022: Nissan Qashqai and Tesla Model Y best-sellers, sales up 23.5%
Full November 2023 Top 46 All brands and Top 10 models below.
UK November 2023 – brands:
| Pos | Brand | Nov-23 | % | /22 | Oct | 2023 | % | /22 | Pos | FY22 |
| 1 | Volkswagen | 13,433 | 8.6% | – 2.4% | 1 | 149,824 | 8.5% | + 26.2% | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | BMW | 11,989 | 7.7% | + 16.9% | 4 | 101,392 | 5.8% | + 2.3% | 6 | 4 |
| 3 | Ford | 11,349 | 7.3% | + 2.4% | 3 | 135,243 | 7.7% | + 13.5% | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | Audi | 11,205 | 7.2% | + 2.2% | 2 | 127,871 | 7.3% | + 26.4% | 3 | 3 |
| 5 | Vauxhall | 9,204 | 5.9% | + 39.5% | 5 | 94,423 | 5.4% | + 17.5% | 7 | 7 |
| 6 | Toyota | 8,550 | 5.5% | + 6.0% | 6 | 102,189 | 5.8% | + 7.2% | 5 | 5 |
| 7 | Mercedes | 7,688 | 4.9% | + 48.0% | 11 | 80,489 | 4.6% | + 5.1% | 10 | 8 |
| 8 | Kia | 7,396 | 4.7% | – 2.6% | 8 | 104,180 | 5.9% | + 7.7% | 4 | 6 |
| 9 | Nissan | 7,156 | 4.6% | – 22.3% | 13 | 81,748 | 4.6% | + 18.8% | 9 | 10 |
| 10 | MG | 6,785 | 4.3% | + 34.0% | 10 | 74,524 | 4.2% | + 54.9% | 11 | 13 |
| 11 | Hyundai | 6,422 | 4.1% | + 8.4% | 9 | 81,878 | 4.6% | + 8.2% | 8 | 9 |
| 12 | Peugeot | 5,831 | 3.7% | + 144.3% | 7 | 59,308 | 3.4% | + 16.7% | 13 | 12 |
| 13 | Skoda | 5,814 | 3.7% | + 23.9% | 12 | 64,727 | 3.7% | + 44.9% | 12 | 14 |
| 14 | Renault | 4,914 | 3.1% | + 84.0% | 17 | 39,381 | 2.2% | + 42.6% | 18 | 18 |
| 15 | Mini | 4,768 | 3.0% | – 3.0% | 15 | 42,315 | 2.4% | + 3.6% | 17 | 15 |
| 16 | Land Rover | 4,712 | 3.0% | + 35.9% | 14 | 48,869 | 2.8% | + 20.4% | 14 | 16 |
| 17 | Volvo | 4,301 | 2.7% | + 15.0% | 16 | 45,957 | 2.6% | + 40.3% | 15 | 17 |
| 18 | Citroen | 2,504 | 1.6% | + 30.0% | 20 | 28,689 | 1.6% | + 4.3% | 21 | 19 |
| 19 | Porsche | 2,249 | 1.4% | + 9.3% | 22 | 21,997 | 1.2% | + 44.6% | 26 | 25 |
| 20 | Cupra | 2,185 | 1.4% | + 75.4% | 19 | 23,383 | 1.3% | + 76.3% | 25 | 27 |
| 21 | Suzuki | 2,170 | 1.4% | + 56.3% | 23 | 24,926 | 1.4% | + 51.4% | 23 | 26 |
| 22 | Dacia | 2,154 | 1.4% | – 33.3% | 24 | 25,453 | 1.4% | – 3.2% | 22 | 20 |
| 23 | Seat | 2,062 | 1.3% | + 20.5% | 21 | 28,741 | 1.6% | + 42.5% | 19 | 23 |
| 24 | Mazda | 2,034 | 1.3% | – 8.1% | 25 | 28,735 | 1.6% | + 24.7% | 20 | 21 |
| 25 | Honda | 1,786 | 1.1% | – 4.3% | 26 | 23,933 | 1.4% | + 1.6% | 24 | 22 |
| 26 | Tesla | 1,648 | 1.1% | – 72.6% | 18 | 44,054 | 2.5% | + 15.2% | 16 | 11 |
| 27 | Jaguar | 1,539 | 1.0% | + 109.1% | 27 | 13,167 | 0.7% | + 17.0% | 29 | 28 |
| 28 | Lexus | 1,219 | 0.8% | + 11.1% | 28 | 14,350 | 0.8% | + 58.8% | 28 | 29 |
| 29 | Fiat | 653 | 0.4% | – 20.6% | 29 | 15,955 | 0.9% | – 14.8% | 27 | 24 |
| 30 | Polestar | 579 | 0.4% | – 53.6% | 30 | 11,441 | 0.6% | + 83.3% | 30 | 30 |
| 31 | BYD | 267 | 0.2% | new | 33 | 895 | 0.1% | new | 38 | – |
| 32 | Jeep | 231 | 0.1% | + 140.6% | 31 | 2,888 | 0.2% | + 29.4% | 31 | 32 |
| 33 | Smart | 185 | 0.1% | + 153.4% | 37 | 656 | 0.0% | – 44.6% | 43 | 38 |
| 34 | Subaru | 181 | 0.1% | – 2.7% | 40 | 2,091 | 0.1% | + 68.4% | 33 | 37 |
| 35 | Alfa Romeo | 167 | 0.1% | + 108.8% | 36 | 1,417 | 0.1% | – 4.8% | 35 | 34 |
| 36 | SsangYong | 119 | 0.1% | + 43.4% | 34 | 1,536 | 0.1% | + 5.5% | 34 | 36 |
| 37 | DS | 106 | 0.1% | – 75.7% | 32 | 2,326 | 0.1% | – 34.9% | 32 | 31 |
| 38 | Genesis | 102 | 0.1% | – 48.7% | 35 | 1,290 | 0.1% | + 54.1% | 36 | 39 |
| 39 | Chevrolet | 102 | 0.1% | n/a | – | 102 | 0.0% | n/a | 45 | – |
| 40 | Bentley | 97 | 0.1% | – 34.9% | 38 | 1,265 | 0.1% | – 17.5% | 37 | 33 |
| 41 | Ora | 94 | 0.1% | + 1780.0% | 39 | 854 | 0.0% | + 1717.0% | 40 | 42 |
| 42 | Maserati | 72 | 0.0% | + 132.3% | 42 | 858 | 0.0% | + 32.2% | 39 | 40 |
| 43 | Abarth | 53 | 0.0% | – 47.0% | 41 | 819 | 0.0% | – 45.9% | 42 | 35 |
| 44 | Ineos | 41 | 0.0% | new | 43 | 841 | 0.0% | new | 41 | – |
| 45 | Alpine | 15 | 0.0% | – 50.0% | 44 | 281 | 0.0% | + 4.9% | 44 | 41 |
| 46 | Maxus | 1 | 0.0% | new | – | 13 | 0.0% | new | 46 | – |
| – | Other British | 265 | 0.2% | + 53.2% | – | 3,060 | 0.2% | + 53.8% | – | – |
| – | Other Imports | 128 | 0.1% | + 24.3% | – | 1,628 | 0.1% | + 14.5% | – | – |
UK November 2023 – models:
| Pos | Model | Nov-23 | % | /22 | Oct | 2023 | % | /22 | Pos | FY22 |
| 1 | Ford Puma | 4,298 | 2.7% | + 78.5% | 1 | 46,434 | 2.6% | + 39.4% | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Vauxhall Corsa | 4,185 | 2.7% | + 65.0% | 3 | 37,826 | 2.1% | + 9.1% | 3 | 2 |
| 3 | Nissan Qashqai | 4,116 | 2.6% | – 27.0% | n/a | 39,068 | 2.2% | – 0.3% | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | Mini | 3,528 | 2.3% | + 6.5% | 2 | 29,777 | 1.7% | + 2.4% | 7 | 5 |
| 5 | Ford Kuga | 3,202 | 2.0% | + 42.8% | 9 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 9 |
| 6 | Kia Sportage | 3,045 | 1.9% | + 39.9% | 6 | 34,620 | 2.0% | + 21.2% | 4 | 6 |
| 7 | Vauxhall Mokka | 2,917 | 1.9% | n/a | n/a | 28,390 | 1.6% | n/a | 9 | n/a |
| 8 | MG HS | 2,734 | 1.7% | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 9 | VW Golf | 2,733 | 1.7% | + 8.6% | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 8 |
| 10 | Audi A3 | 2,726 | 1.7% | n/a | 8 | 28,178 | 1.6% | n/a | 10 | n/a |
| n/a | Hyundai Tucson | 2,311 | 1.5% | + 4.1% | n/a | 32,301 | 1.8% | + 21.7% | 5 | 7 |
| n/a | Nissan Juke | 2,019 | 1.3% | n/a | n/a | 29,272 | 1.7% | n/a | 8 | n/a |
| n/a | Tesla Model Y | 996 | 0.6% | – 76.4% | n/a | 31,083 | 1.8% | + 24.9% | 6 | 3 |
Source: SMMT
