Consumers at a crossroads: where next for the UK car market?

A string of national lockdowns and now a cost of living crisis has left UK roads potentially quieter than ever before. Tom Cox of Opinium explores the insight agency’s findings and the road ahead for the automotive industry.
2021 saw the first consecutive annual fall in the number of cars on UK roads in more than a century, according to data by SMMT Motorparc. The impact of lockdowns, the subsequent move towards hybrid working and the fall in the number of people in the UK with a dri