No slowdown of Toyota sales in Scotland

Despite continued issues surrounding complaints and recalls of Toyota vehicles, sales of the company’s most popular models continue to thrive in the Scottish market.Even though bad publicity has seen Toyota’s market share fall by nearly one third across the rest of Britain when compared to the same period last year – falling from 6.8 per cent to five per cent – its market share in Scotland actually increased in February compared to January, to 4.8 per cent. Indeed Toyota car sales are up across Britain as overall car sales rise steeply.In the first two months of the year, Scottish car registrations have risen by 32 per cent as the car scrappage scheme nears its end. The scheme, which offers £2,000 off the purchase of a new car when trading in a vehicle that is 10 or more years old, is scheduled to finish at the end of the month.Indeed the registration of 16,500 cars in Scotland during January and February places the country ahead of other parts of the UK, with a total rise of 29 per cent to 213,000.The trend continues the pattern established in 2009 when new car sales in Scotland increased by seven per cent even though figures for the UK as a whole fell by seven per cent.

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