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United Kingdom · 2020

How is BMW doing in United Kingdom?

BMW accounts for 7.1% of new car registrations in United Kingdom in 2020, with 115,185 cars.

Registrations 2020

115,185

−32.1% vs 2019

Market share

7.1%

−0.2 pp vs 2019

Rank

#3

#4 in 2019

Average CO₂

140g/km

WLTP test cycle

Electric, hybrid or combustion?

Are all new cars electric?

Understand the powertrains

Fully electric cars account for 3.8% of this brand’s registrations in the selected market and period.

Share of new registrations in United Kingdom, 2020.

Plug-in cars

16.7%

19,197 new cars

+7.4 pp vs previous year

Non-plug-in cars

83.3%

95,988 new cars

−7.0 pp vs previous year

Plug-in cars can be charged from the grid: fully electric cars and plug-in hybrids. Split by powertrain:

Combustion engine

73.8%

84,995 new cars

−16.6 pp vs previous year

Plug-in hybrid

12.8%

14,792 new cars

+6.0 pp vs previous year

Hybrid (incl. mild hybrids)

9.5%

10,993 new cars

+9.5 pp vs previous year

Battery electric

3.8%

4,405 new cars

+1.4 pp vs previous year

Fully electric cars and plug-in hybrids are separate categories. Petrol and diesel can also power hybrids; powertrain and fuel are different classifications. Hybrids include mild hybrids, and the line against combustion cars differs between countries, so compare hybrid shares within a country rather than between countries.

How has BMW developed?

Registrations per year

Number of cars, United Kingdom

Lighter bars are provisional. Some periods have incomplete coverage, see the table.

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Period BMW
2010 108,861
2011 116,422
2012 127,245
2013 135,467
2014 148,732
2015 167,155
2016 182,532
2017 175,038
2018 172,067
2019 169,585
2020 115,185
2021 incomplete –
2022 incomplete –
2023 incomplete –
2024 incomplete –
2025 provisional incomplete –

Market share per year

Percent of registrations, United Kingdom

Dashed lines are provisional. Some periods have incomplete coverage, see the table.

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Period BMW
2010 5.4%
2011 6.0%
2012 6.2%
2013 6.0%
2014 6.0%
2015 6.4%
2016 6.8%
2017 6.9%
2018 7.3%
2019 7.4%
2020 7.1%
2021 incomplete –
2022 incomplete –
2023 incomplete –
2024 incomplete –
2025 provisional incomplete –

Position by market

2020, all reporting countries

BMW by market
Country Rank Registrations vs previous year Share Share change
Germany 3 242,682 −12.3% 8.6% +0.7 pp
United Kingdom 3 115,185 −32.1% 7.1% −0.2 pp
France 10 46,869 −19.8% 2.7% +0.1 pp
Italy 12 46,012 −20.9% 3.3% +0.3 pp
Belgium 2 36,507 −0.8% 8.5% +1.8 pp
Spain 12 35,306 −23.9% 3.9% +0.4 pp
Netherlands 8 18,097 −2.2% 5.1% +0.5 pp
Sweden 7 17,674 −15.4% 6.2% +0.2 pp
Poland 7 17,336 −16.3% 4.5% +0.6 pp
Austria 4 15,486 −19.0% 6.3% +0.5 pp
Portugal 4 10,649 −24.1% 7.4% +1.1 pp
Norway 4 9,587 −6.8% 6.8% −0.4 pp
Denmark 12 7,879 −4.7% 4.0% +0.3 pp
Czechia 11 4,843 −6.4% 2.5% +0.3 pp
Finland 8 4,344 +18.0% 4.6% +1.3 pp
Luxembourg 3 4,194 −13.8% 9.6% +0.6 pp
Hungary 14 3,523 +49.4% 2.7% +1.1 pp
Greece 12 3,142 −6.9% 3.9% +1.0 pp
Ireland 12 3,130 −22.0% 3.5% +0.1 pp
Romania 12 2,840 −23.1% 2.3% 0.0 pp
Slovakia 12 2,019 −22.3% 2.7% +0.1 pp
Slovenia 15 1,036 −32.1% 1.9% −0.2 pp
Croatia 15 973 −15.8% 2.8% +0.9 pp
Bulgaria 9 950 −26.3% 4.3% +0.6 pp
Lithuania 13 521 −23.0% 1.3% −0.2 pp
Cyprus 6 496 −17.6% 5.0% 0.0 pp
Estonia 16 292 −25.3% 1.6% +0.2 pp
Iceland 16 166 −4.0% 1.8% +0.3 pp
Malta 11 149 −6.3% 3.4% +1.3 pp
Latvia 18 148 −29.2% 1.2% −0.1 pp

Top models

Variants are grouped into model families

  1. 1 SERIES 21.6%
  2. 3 SERIES 20.1%
  3. 2 SERIES 11.0%
  4. 5 SERIES 8.7%
  5. X3 6.8%
  6. X1 6.7%

Largest brands in United Kingdom

2020

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These are new passenger car registrations, not sales contracts or used cars.

Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), CC BY 4.0. New passenger car registrations, 2020.