New car sales: January car registrations rise by 27%

• 115,087 new car sales in January 2022
• 27% rise compared with January 2021

New car sales have surged at the start of 2021, with a rise of 27.5% in January 2022’s figures over the first month of 2021.

In total, 115,087 cars were registered throughout the month.

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Alternatively-fuelled cars saw the biggest growth with a 92.5% increase in hybrid and electric car sales to 36,972. In c0ntrast, diesel declined by 45.8% to just 6,008.

New car sales: biggest sellers in January

The Kia Sportage took top honours in the first month of 2021, tallying 3,458 new registrations.

Another SUV, the Ford Puma, followed in second at 2,608.

Third place goes to another SUV, the Kia Niro, that recorded 2,372 registrations.

New car sales: biggest sellers in 2022