# United Kingdom 07.1.1 Purchase of vehicles Motor cars CP SA £m ()

United Kingdom 07.1.1 Purchase of vehicles Motor cars CP SA £m () was down 0.2% year on year in Q2 2026, compared with 3.7% in Q1 2026.
The level stood at 17,189 £m.
That is the lowest reading since Q2 2024.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from −53.5% (Q2 2020) to 86.0% (Q2 2021), averaging 4.3%.

- Source agency: UK Office for National Statistics
- Makrognosis code: `UK.HHCONS.Q.SA.COICOP-07-1-1`
- Frequency: quarterly
- Units: £m
- Coverage: 1985-01-01 to 2026-04-01 (166 observations)
- Page: https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/data/united-kingdom/07-1-1-purchase-of-vehicles-motor-cars-cp-sa-m

## Recent data

| Period | Value | Y/Y % |
|---|---:|---:|
| Q2 2026 | 17,189 £m | −0.2 |
| Q1 2026 | 17,337 £m | 3.7 |
| Q4 2025 | 16,740 £m | 3.3 |
| Q3 2025 | 17,070 £m | 7.2 |
| Q2 2025 | 17,218 £m | 14.8 |
| Q1 2025 | 16,722 £m | 11.1 |
| Q4 2024 | 16,209 £m | 8.3 |
| Q3 2024 | 15,922 £m | 3.8 |
| Q2 2024 | 14,992 £m | −1.1 |
| Q1 2024 | 15,056 £m | 1.1 |
| Q4 2023 | 14,971 £m | −0.7 |
| Q3 2023 | 15,338 £m | 9.3 |
| Q2 2023 | 15,159 £m | 11.1 |
| Q1 2023 | 14,885 £m | 10.6 |
| Q4 2022 | 15,082 £m | 17.2 |
| Q3 2022 | 14,031 £m | 18.7 |
| Q2 2022 | 13,641 £m | 10.5 |
| Q1 2022 | 13,453 £m | 35.9 |
| Q4 2021 | 12,866 £m | 7.6 |
| Q3 2021 | 11,825 £m | −22.6 |
| Q2 2021 | 12,344 £m | 86.0 |
| Q1 2021 | 9,896.0 £m | −17.3 |
| Q4 2020 | 11,957 £m | −11.7 |
| Q3 2020 | 15,277 £m | 8.2 |

## API

```
curl -H "X-API-Key: $MAKROGNOSIS_KEY" \
  "https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/UK.HHCONS.Q.SA.COICOP-07-1-1"

# Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://makrognosis.robomacro.com/v1/series/UK.HHCONS.Q.SA.COICOP-07-1-1",
                 headers={"X-API-Key": KEY})
obs = r.json()["observations"]
```