What a mess!

OCTOBER marked the seventh successive month of falling UK car sales.

Diesel appears, unsurprisingly, to be the hardest hit sector with sales dropping 30%. Overall the market was down 12%.

Sales of electric and hybrid cars went up 37%.

On that last note, I wouldn’t fancy being in the shoes of a massive car company right now.

It can take anywhere from three to six years to pre-plan, develop, engineer and manufacture your model range, volumes and all the distribution infrastructure. They’re lumbering giants. And then, almost overnight, the world inexplicably changes and...