Car production in the UK rose for a second successive month in July, but a fall in commercial vehicles saw overall numbers down on the previous year.<\/p>\n
Figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) showed 69,127 cars were made during the month \u2013 a rise of 5.6% on the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n
But commercial vehicle output fell by 81.1% compared to 12 months ago, which saw the highest figures for 17 years, bringing the total production number down by 10.8% year on year to 72,006.<\/p>\n
SMMT analysis said the drop in commercial vehicles followed plant restructuring.<\/p>\n
Chief executive Mike Hawes said: \u201cIt remains a turbulent time for automotive manufacturing, with consumer confidence weak, trade flows volatile and massive investment in new technologies underway both here and abroad.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven this backdrop, another month of growing car output is good news \u2013 signalling the sector\u2019s underlying resilience in the face of intense global competition.\u201d<\/p>\n
The latest figures mean total vehicle production has fallen 11.7% in the first seven months of the year compared to 2024, although the SMMT said the latest forecast predicts a ride of 6.4% in 2026.<\/p>\n
Car production for domestic markets rose by 13.6% in July while exports \u2013 which accounted for 79.4% of output \u2013 were up by 3.7%.<\/p>\n
After three months of falling numbers, exports to the largest single national market in the US increased by 6.8% to almost 10,000 units while cars for Turkey (35.4%) and Japan (14.9%) also saw significant increases.<\/p>\n
Exports to the EU fell by 7.9% and to China by 7.1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Car production in the UK rose for a second successive month in July, but a fall in commercial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,132120,132121,393,4884,1144,712,2479,13632,16,15,86125,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-379170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-car-production","11":"tag-commercial-vehicles","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-smmt","17":"tag-society-of-motor-manufacturers-and-traders","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-vehicle-production","21":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115103992664172043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}