Automotive Focus: Ford

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Key Statistics:

• There are 4,896,677 Fords currently registered in the UK.
  
  
• This represents 13.20% of UK registered vehicles.
  
  
• Fords rank as the number 1 most favoured make by UK consumers!
  
  
• Only 32.83% of UK Ford's belong to private female owners, and 51.63% by males. 9.22% are company car owned. The genders owning the remaining cars are unknown.
  
  
• 53.71% of Fords are 5 door Hatchbacks, 26.24% are 3 door Hatchbacks and 9.04% are Estates.
  
  
• Only 6.84% of Ford owners have chosen to put private plates on their vehicle.
  
  
• 1.00% of Fords are classified as Imports.
  
  
• 94.36% of Fords are manual transmission and 5.64% are automatic.
  
  
• The top 10 locations to see Fords are: Birmingham, Chelmsford, Sheffield, Cardiff, Leicester, Nottingham, Peterborough, Bristol, Southend-on-Sea and Liverpool. Together these locations contain 20.11% of all Fords. 
  
  
• The most popular model is the Ford Fiesta, making up 27.78% of the Ford market, closely followed by the Focus with 21.04%.
  
  
• The top two favoured colours are Blue (27.28%) and Silver/Aluminium (21.88%) which make up 49.16% of all Fords. Red (16.24%) and Black (12.16%) follow close behind.
  
  
• 13.73% are less than 24 months old. 28.30% are younger than 4 years old and 25.64% of Fords are over 10 years old.
  
  
• 3.13% have an engine size less than 1149. 35.69% have engine sizes between 1150 and 1549 and 44.45% between 1550 and 1949. The remaining 16.72% have engine sizes above 1950.

This analysis has been performed by GMAP using current market statistics from the anonymised DVLA Parc data.