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MG Monthly UK Registrations

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#1 ·
This thread is to discuss, and make guesses about, MG monthly registrations in the UK which are generally on the up - but how much?

I'm not the only fan of MGs who's not here as often as they used to be and I don't think we have the quorum any more to run a separate thread for each month, but if we have a thread with no month in the title, then anyone can start the ball rolling for subsequent months and update the summary of who has guessed what in their own post.
 
#1,346 · (Edited)
MG MOTOR UK REGISTRATIONS YEAR 2023


MG HS no.4 best-selling car out of all manufacturers December month.
MG4 no.2 best-selling BEV out of all 2023 year behind only Tesla Model 3.

MONTH DECEMBER 2023

MG registrations Dec 2023 6,765 (4.79% of market), Dec 2022 2,927 (2.28% of market), up 3,838 or by more than total sales for 2015!

MG were in 8th place for the month, beating Vauxhall, Hyundai and Kia, but not Mercedes or Nissan. Tesla’s “on” month (5,517) was only good enough for 10th position.

Company registrations were up to 2/3 (from normally just over half) in the month suggesting a lot of deals and pre-registrations. Private customers would traditionally want to wait for new year.

MG HS (3,362) was half MG’s sales.

Top 3 VW; B*W(!); Audi

YEAR 2023

As already predicted, MG beat Škoda to reach 11th place, and by over 11,000 registrations. Hyundai did make it to 10th place for the year but slipped behind both Mercedes (9th) and Nissan (8th). All three manufacturers are less than 10,000 ahead of MG so let’s expect MG in the top ten for its official 100th birthday year 2024! MG’s 30,000 sales increase for 2023 is double its total sales for 2019!

Tesla has had a mare of a year, although its Model Y is easily the best-selling BEV in the UK (35,899 in the year – MG4, second, only 21,715). Its sales have actually fallen from 54,622 to 49,571 and it has dropped from the 11th place which MG has now taken, to 15th behind Škoda, Peugeot and even Volvo! It is the top BEV marque but that restricts its sales to under 20% of the market.

When trying to remember all the marques of “German Leyland” and dithering about MAN, Scania, Lamborghini, Ducati and now semi-detached Bugatti, Cupra is the marque I forget. However, in 2023 its sales are up 78% to 25,658, only about 6,000 less than SEAT which is growing more slowly.

BYD has 1/3 of the Chinese BEV market all to itself and it is poised for action. From a standing start in Spring 2023 its year 2023 sales (1,158) have outstripped those of both GWM Ora (911) and smart (a fringe player - hardly even on the bench! - whose 2023 sales of 785 are 38% down on 2022). In the December month BYD beat Stellantis’s albatross brand Alfa Romeo as well as these and Maxus (MIFA 9 not selling well or, in December, at all). I predict BYD will beat all of these and also Polestar in 2024, though Polestar outsold BYD by ten times in 2023.

Top 3 VW; Ford; Audi.



BEV and NEV

From 2023 figures, BEV is 17% of the market with pure ICE at 44% (40% petrol, 4% diesel) and all hybrids at 39%. MG4 with 21,715 registrations is easily MG’s most successful BEV (7% of total 2023 sales) as neither MG5 nor MG ZS EV sold more than about 8,000.

The key to MG’s success is its range of petrol cars and HS PHEV in addition to the BEVs. HS was half December registrations. It is likely many of these were corporate. I would be surprised if MG sold much more than 50% of its total as BEVs despite being a top BEV manufacturerthough it is therefore far more progressive thanwith the market as a whole.

(I edited this - despite HS and ZS being huge successes, MG4 all by itself was 27% of UK registrations!)

This is promising for the MG3 replacement, targeting some 80% of the market. Tesla is stuck as a big fish in the small BEV pond, 17% of the market, even though this is set to get bigger.
 
#1,348 ·
Just about remembered in time in this new year!

First off, the 2024 timetable:

New car and light commercial vehicle (LCV) registrations
  • December 2023 Friday 5 January 2024
  • January 2024 Monday 5 February
  • February 2024 Tuesday 5 March
  • March 2024 Thursday 4 April
  • April 2024 Tuesday 7 May
  • May 2024 Wednesday 5 June
  • June 2024 Thursday 4 July
  • July 2024 Monday 5 August
  • August 2024 Thursday 5 September
  • September 2024 Friday 4 October
  • October 2024 Tuesday 5 November
  • November 2024 Thursday 5 December
 
#1,357 ·
JANUARY 2024

CHINESE BRANDS

And it's happened immediately! BYD (248) outsell all other new Chinese brands in the very first month, (I don't count MG or Volvo), beating Polestar on 236, smart on 147, and GWM Ora on only a weedy 56. Look out MG!
Maxus no threat to anybody on zero for MIFA 9... MIFA 7 may come out this summer, it needs to do much better!

MG
MG may be down 10% on last year but 6,711 registrations (half of which are HS) are enough for 8th place ahead of Hyundai and Toyota - Mercedes is behind Peugeot in 12th!

Top 3: VW; B*W; Kia. Ford (no Fiesta, though Puma no.2) 4th.
 
#1,360 ·
OK.my licensed MS Office is playing up (something to do with my antivirus resetting the DNS I'll warrant) so I'm back to Sun, er Apache OpenOffice. Working OK ATM.

Jan 2024 6,711 (7th place?)
Feb 2023 1,014 (22nd place?)

Registrations are happening but I think the deals to take the last of the 73 reg are largely the same as for the first of the official anniversary 24 reg. Is some fleet prepared to take a wodge of MGs in February for a cut-throat discount, I wonder? February 2023's poor sales surely contributed to MG missing the Top Ten in 2023.

I'll say 1,725. (AlfaMack 5,999).
 
#1,366 ·
Actually, I read the Perth (Scotland) dealer saying that HS was the 6th biggest-selling car in the UK YTD which suggests it was probably top 10 in February also. Was there a good fleet deal?

I'm probably too conservative...
Member
Feb
Year 2024
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6,400​
13,111​
AlfaMack​
5,999​
12,710​
SpottyCat​
2,838​
9,549​
patpending​
1,725​
8,436​
 
#1,373 ·
FEBRUARY 2024

MG squeaks into the Top 10 to no.10 with 3,493 ahead of Mercedes and Toyota but behind Nissan, Hyundai... and Škoda! Nevertheless, it's 3½ times 2023's February sales

HS achieved 51% of MG's sales in January (3,413) to be 4th most popular car in the UK, Even 11% (1,155) in February, well outside February's Top 10 in a low sales month, secured HS 7th place YTD just behind the Golf but ahead of Audi A3.

So the other models which were 49% of MG sales in January were 89% in February. No one model sold more than 1,513 but the total for all models except HS was up from 2,143 to 2,338.

CHINESE BRANDS (except MG and Volvo)

As I said last month having predicted that BYD would power to the front of the new boys' pack by 2025, "it's happened immediately!" in the words of Murray Walker.

BYD now leads Polestar 519 to 495 YTD, some way ahead of the rest. Sino-American Fisker is also now in the list, but the 197 new owners Fisker has found this year are presumably troubled by that manufacturer's financial woes. Polestar's future also seems to be uncertain.

GWM Ora's 112 YTD can't be anything like they had hoped, but it's still better than Maxus - 0 YTD. MIFA 9 is a bit of a hard sell in the UK. It will soon be joined in the car registrations, however, by the smaller MIFA 7 and IIRC some(?) T90EVs will soon have to be registered as cars rather than commercial vehicles.

TOP 3 FEBRUARY VW; BMW; Ford (month and YTD)
 
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