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Even if new car sales in Europe drop for the fourteenth consecutive month in November, the lowest result for the period since 1993, the UK car market was the only major carmaker to expand this year. According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), UK new car sales increased by 11.3 percent last month to almost 150,000 new ...
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