Leading car companies' UK market share 2021

In 2021, Ford was the fourth most popular car brand in the United Kingdom after Volkswagen, Audi, and BMW. The Detroit-based company sold some 116,300 vehicles in the UK and reached a market share of about 7.06 percent that year. Volkswagen held some 8.97 percent of the market.

Ford in the United Kingdom

Brexit casts its shadow over the auto industry, and hence, the company decided to shut down its plant in Bridgend, adding on to the growing list of automakers in the process of ceasing operations at car production plants in the United Kingdom. That said, the Ford Motor Company will remain present in the United Kingdom, continuing to operate an engine plant in Dagenham. Car sales in the United Kingdom were down 89 percent in May 2020, due to closed dealerships and consumer spending uncertainty amid the coronavirus pandemic. By the end of December 2020, UK car sales were down by almost eleven percent compared with 2019.