MG Monthly UK Registrations

All of us high rolling in the month when Admiral said MG ZS EV is the cheapest EV to insure and MG5 is fourth cheapest, despite its blistering performance. Who would have thought we'd ever have a month in which 2,500 is a low guess and the highest guess is over 3,000?

If sales were lower than last month, we'd get caught out.

Guessing is very high this month, I saw a "guess the sales" thread from 2016 reminding me that February (traditionally a low sales month) was 63 in 2015 and 112(?) in 2016. Five and a bit years later, we're in a different ball game where MG have an ad at half-time in the Euro quarter finals!

Despite the sob stories about chip supply, month sales have increased for nearly all MG's near competitors except for "low-tech" Dacia. As for the premium brands - Mercedes and Land Rover were down 6% and 19% respectively, but B*W was up 34%, Jag was up 38%... and Audi was up 78%!
MG is up only slightly more than the market so the Usual Suspects almost all overtake the octagon this month (and Renault stays ahead). Is EV supply disproportionately affected?





As for Year to Date. MG's better relative performance in previous months mean it is still in the middle of the pack, though Mazda's great June means the Japanese squeak past!




20,000 new MGs in 2021 is likely. 30,000 is possible!

I think this is the first "normal sales" month in which BEVs have outsold diesels - by nearly a third! MG sold 13k all models and 73k is the total, could over 10% of all BEVs sold be MGs?

Here we go again.
21 seems to be a bumper reg as we come out of lockdown and people fed up of sleeping one inch under the ceiling start splashing the cash they've been hoarding under the mattress and could no longer spend even at the corner shop. (many have been lucky that way, many haven't, and then you have the people who rang in sick to visit the Euros! - as well as those people who have fallen ill and even died).
We're seeing lots of new Green Flash numberplates (one on an Audi Q4 whatever that is) and, for the first time ever, several MGs every day.
MG Motor have been advertising during the Euros and now have a new Head of Sales, Andrew Stewart joining them from Hyundai, though if when Messrs. Jones, Cheyne, and Gregorious RIP took up the post it was like leaping onto a tortoise, trotting pony, then galloping horse, it's more like an express train now and the c.130 UK dealers are going for it.

(Almost) No travelling to France for the moment, though recalling the nightmare I once had trying to refuel there using UK and German cards from an automated French petrol pump, that's probably great for EV sales TBH! and MG are the UK's fourth-strongest brand for EV sales, in June higher than diesel.

July 2020 1,846 (Dacia were doing better then. Left at the lights in 2021).

June 2021 2,834 and below the immediate competition for the month.

This month, a huge roll-on/roll-off Cross Channel/Ocean Ferry has come to Australia carrying IIRC 4,800 vehicles of a single marque - MG! "Long range" MG5 has been launched too. So I'm going to bet that MG production has not been hit by a chip shortage and predict a further increase to 3,257.