Is Automatic the New Normal in The UK?
This question will surely come to your mind if you are a keen observer of the Auto market in the UK. The ‘preferential treatment’ being given by car buyers in the UK indicates a definite shift towards automatic. Here is an important statistic to start with. In Britain, the production and distribution of automatic vehicles are rising every year. It is estimated that 8.4 million automatic cars hit the road in the year 2017, which was a whopping 40% of all new cars that year. As on today as well, you would notice long waiting lists for automatic Driving lessons Oxford and there are ample reasons for this increasing demand. The DVSA driving test data also bears testimony of the increasing popularity of automatic cars. In the year 2019-20, 10.9% of all the passed driving tests in the UK belonged to the automatic category. This figure read 9.4% in 2018-19, 8.0% in 2017-18, 6.9% in 2016-17 and only 6.3% in 2015-16. From this, we can conclude that learner drivers are making the ‘swi...