CarGurus Blog (UK)

The CarGurus UK blog is packed with news, views and features about the world's most interesting cars (as well as some less interesting ones), all written by some of the UK's best motoring journalists.

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The Best-Selling New Cars of 2020

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In this guide we look at the best-selling new cars of 2020. Scroll down to see a list of the top 10 sellers in the UK, which we’ll update as the year goes on. But first, let’s take a look at the health of the UK new car market in general…

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Five Exciting Used Family Cars with Style, From as Little as £1,000

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  • BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe silver driving front

Family car: the very term conjures up an image of something practical, sensible – and perhaps a little boring. When you need a car to carry the kids and pets, not to mention all the assorted accoutrements that they need, it’s easy to assume that something with a little bit of panache might be too much to hope for.

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The Best-Selling New Cars of 2019

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The 10 best-selling new cars of 2019 might look relatively familiar from previous years. However, when you dig into the numbers it’s clear that much as changed. Where once the new car market bounced from one month of record registrations to the next, in 2019 it continued to cool. Faced with seemingly never-ending political uncertainty, increased taxes and a lack of clarity over the future of diesel, consumers held back on changing to a new car, resulting in a market that was down -2.4% compared with 2018. As such, 2019 marked the third consecutive year of declining sales for the UK new car market.

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Used Electric Car Batteries: What happens to them and can they be recycled?

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Almost 33,000 pure electric cars were sold between January and December 2019. That doesn’t sound like much, but it’s an increase of 136% on the same period in 2018, and the number of battery cars – pure electric, plug-in hybrid and full hybrid alike – looks set to continue the rapid rise.

That’s especially so if the government’s intention to have every new car offering plug-in electric running by 2040 is to be realised. While this would be an environmental win on most counts, there is an often-overlooked ecological burden associated with electric cars: the batteries. What do we do with them when they reach the point that they need to be re-used or recycled?

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