Vehicle Manufacturers made significant changes within their dealership networks throughout 2021. How is that impacting business geographically?
2021 was another year of changes, twists and turns, and the UK dealer network was no exception.
The pandemic, as well as chip shortages continued to present planning challenges for vehicle manufacturers and dealer networks alike.
As we continue into 2022, we've presented a snapshot of 2021 and the impact of its geographical changes across the entire franchised dealer network.
So what makes up the graphic?
We are representing site changes as sales, aftersales splits, dealerships etc.
We made 7001 changes to our dataset in 2021. This represents 4 updates every business hour.
56% of these were passenger car
14% were light commercial vehicles
5% were heavy goods vehicles
18% were motorcycles/all terrain vehicles