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Chinese models now account for every tenth new passenger car entering UK

  • Writer: Matthias Schmidt
    Matthias Schmidt
  • 5 hours ago
  • 1 min read

Bar chart shows Chinese car registrations in the UK rising from 2% in 2022 to 10% in 2025. Notable increase in red for 2025.

With just one month of 2025 to run, the UK, alongside Spain and Norway, can now count every tenth car registered between January and November as a Chinese model, according to Schmidt Automotive Research.

 

The UK market remains on track to see over 200,000 new Chinese-brand passenger cars enter its market this year, with 187,800 entering between January and November, according to SMMT data. Almost one third of the total Western European Chinese model volumes delivered this year ended up in the UK.

 

The UK's failure to replicate EU anti-subsidy tariffs on BEVs has partly led Chinese OEMs to mitigate the impact and target the former EU market in 2025, according to Schmidt Automotive Research.

Silver Geely EX5 SUV on wet street near London Underground entrance, beige building backdrop.
Geely's namesake brand is now present in the UK.

SAIC's MG came within 0.2 percentage points of equalling Vauxhall, now part of Stellantis, and was the largest Chinese brand, accounting for a stable 75,309 new deliveries so far this year, compared to Vauxhall's 77,792 new units according to SMMT data. Almost fifteen individual Chinese brands are now present on the UK market.

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Source: Schmidt Automotive Research 




*Western Europe 18 Markets: EU Member States prior to the 2004 enlargement plus EFTA markets Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, plus UK

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