The most popular car on the road is a black, 8-year old supermini – most likely a Ford Fiesta (1.61m) or a Vauxhall Corsa (1.16m).
White is overwhelmingly the colour of choice for plug-in cars, though only fifth favourite overall.
Meanwhile, the number of female drivers continues to grow as there are now 175,821 more female drivers – up 1.5% on 2018’s parc data to 34.7%.
Greater London and the West Midlands were the only two regions that experienced a decline in car ownership, down -0.31% and -0.71% respectively, with 9,131 and 24,642 fewer cars on the roads across the nation’s capital and the Black Country respectively.
The South West region experienced the country’s most significant uplift in ownership – up 1.94%, with over 67,000 more cars on the roads.
Greater London is the municipality with the highest number of battery electric and plug-in hybrid cars (26,513), followed closely by Birmingham (24,431) and Peterborough (12,493).
2019 saw the highest number of HGVs on UK roads in 30 years – with 607,998 trucks and lorries delivering goods across the country, the majority of them diesel (93.96%).
Record 4,527,724 vans on UK roads supporting booming demand for online deliveries, as 83% of people are buying goods and services online5.
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