The UK’s Best-Selling Car Isn’t a Ford, Jaecoo or Nissan — and the Winner Is a Surprise

The UK new-car leaderboard has become unusually unpredictable, with established favourites repeatedly challenged as buyers respond to changing prices, technology and running costs.

The latest figures deliver another result few would have expected at the beginning of the year. These ten points reveal the winner, the rivals it defeated and why the result matters beyond one month.