September new car sales highest in a decade | Top 10 - Car News Oct 2014

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12:30 Tuesday 07 Oct 2014

The new 64 plates have led to a bumper month for car sales and we can reveal the ten most popular models.

September 2014 saw a total of 425,861 new cars being registered across the UK, this comes as a hefty proportion of the 1,958,196 new car sales since the beginning of 2014. Compared with September of last year, this represents a 5.6% improvement in sales; this increase was however not as strong as that of the previous plate change in March when a boost of 18% was registered.

The best selling cars of September 2014 and their respective sales figures are as follows:

 

Ford Fiesta - sales of 23,266

2 Ford Focus - sales of 13,508

3 Volkswagen Golf - sales of 13,011

4 Vauxhall Corsa - sales of 12,506

5 Volkswagen Polo - sales of 10,312

6 Fiat 500 - sales of 9,122

7 Vauxhall Astra - sales of 8,861

8 Audi A3 – sales of 7,317

9 Peugeot 208 – sales of 6,968

10 Nissan Qashqai – sales of 6,847

 


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