After the doldrums of the “COVID years”, new vehicle sales are slowly recovering. The SMMT reports that the UK new car market clocked up its 20th consecutive month of growth in March, with a 10.4% year-on-year rise in registrations, adding 320,000 new cars – the best March since 2019; whilst 53,000 new light commercial vehicles also joined UK roads in March as more fleet owners upgraded to the latest models than in any other month in the last three years – an increase of 11.1%.