{"id":817,"date":"2010-09-08T08:56:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T08:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=817"},"modified":"2010-09-08T08:56:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T08:56:16","slug":"new-60-plates-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/08\/new-60-plates-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"New 60 Plates Coming Soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The change normally produces the year&#8217;s peak in business but the Society of    Motor Manufacturers and Traders says sales are likely to be down 10pc from    last year&#8217;s corresponding level of 367,929 when the scrappage scheme began    to make an impact.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Sales    last month plummeted 17.5pc on an annual basis to 55,305<\/strong> as the loss    of benefits from the scheme, which ended in March, continued to depress    business.<\/p>\n<p>August is traditionally the weakest month of the year, accounting for just    3.3pc of annual sales but with private car sales down almost 38pc last month    economists feel householders are now more cautious about buying &#8216;big ticket&#8217;    items.<\/p>\n<p>Total sales in the first eight months at 1.3m were still more than 13pc higher    than a year ago because of the boost provided by the &#8216;old for new&#8217; scrappage    scheme. Sales jumped sharply in the second-half last year after a weak first    six months.<\/p>\n<p>The SMMT expects overall sales this year will still top last year&#8217;s level and    reach 2m for modest growth of 1.2pc but Paul Everitt, chief executive,    acknowledges market conditions &#8220;will remain challenging for the rest of    the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sales of mini, super-mini and models in the medium range lost most ground last    month as the private motorist deserted the market but the top end grew while    diesel fuelled cars took a record 52.6pc share of the business.<\/p>\n<p>Ford comfortably remains market leader although sales are down 5.4pc to    184,037 in the first eight months and its Fiesta range the best selling    model.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The change normally produces the year&#8217;s peak in business but the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders says sales are likely to be down 10pc from last year&#8217;s corresponding level of 367,929 when the scrappage scheme began to make an<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/08\/new-60-plates-coming-soon\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}