# United Kingdom 07.1 Purchase of vehicles CP SA £m ()

United Kingdom 07.1 Purchase of vehicles CP SA £m () was down 0.4% year on year in Q2 2026, compared with 3.4% in Q1 2026.
The level stood at 17,717 £m.
That is the lowest reading since Q2 2024.
Over the past ten years it has ranged from −52.0% (Q2 2020) to 81.6% (Q2 2021), averaging 4.1%.

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

## Recent data

| Period | Value | Y/Y % |
|---|---:|---:|
| Q2 2026 | 17,717 £m | −0.4 |
| Q1 2026 | 17,864 £m | 3.4 |
| Q4 2025 | 17,281 £m | 3.0 |
| Q3 2025 | 17,624 £m | 6.9 |
| Q2 2025 | 17,781 £m | 14.2 |
| Q1 2025 | 17,278 £m | 10.5 |
| Q4 2024 | 16,773 £m | 7.6 |
| Q3 2024 | 16,494 £m | 3.2 |
| Q2 2024 | 15,564 £m | −1.7 |
| Q1 2024 | 15,643 £m | 0.2 |
| Q4 2023 | 15,584 £m | −1.7 |
| Q3 2023 | 15,983 £m | 8.0 |
| Q2 2023 | 15,835 £m | 9.7 |
| Q1 2023 | 15,614 £m | 9.7 |
| Q4 2022 | 15,850 £m | 16.1 |
| Q3 2022 | 14,802 £m | 18.0 |
| Q2 2022 | 14,438 £m | 10.8 |
| Q1 2022 | 14,236 £m | 35.3 |
| Q4 2021 | 13,651 £m | 8.2 |
| Q3 2021 | 12,541 £m | −21.4 |
| Q2 2021 | 13,026 £m | 81.6 |
| Q1 2021 | 10,521 £m | −16.3 |
| Q4 2020 | 12,619 £m | −11.2 |
| Q3 2020 | 15,962 £m | 7.9 |

## API

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

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