MIKE RUTHERFORD

THE official new car-buying results for 2025 are in.

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And just over two million were purchased by consumers in Britain last year. So far, so good.

Of the Brit-based companies, Bentley and MINI did well to increase sales. But plucky Vauxhall (still British, right?) performed even more impressively, thanks to a hike in orders plus the added bonus of grabbing a larger share of the growing market. This is what happens when a firm gets real, becomes less greedy and does the fair, decent and sensible thing of offering the right deals (especially on Fronteras and Grandlands), resulting in more Vauxhalls in the hands of more paying customers. Simple! Let this be a lesson to some of its sleepy rivals, who daftly continued to price themselves out of the market.