Major brand’s ‘fun & attractive’ motor is UK’s best-selling car for second year in a row – beating Kia and Nissan models

A CAR described arsenic "fun and attractive" has been revealed arsenic the UK's existent best-selling centrifugal for a 2nd twelvemonth successful a row.

The large marque down the centrifugal has sold implicit 38,000 of the fashionable exemplary successful the past 12 months and bushed retired the large alternatives from Kia and Nissan.

The best-selling car of 2024 truthful acold has been the classy Ford Puma, according to information from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

An awesome 38,944 units person been sold with that being implicit 1,300 much than the car successful 2nd spot - the Kia Sportage.

But conscionable similar successful 2023, the Puma stormed into archetypal spot and consistently sold crossed the twelvemonth owed to its affordability and amusive driving dynamic.

The compact crossover has been praised for its versatility with it being a large household car oregon a flashy fig to instrumentality for a spin.

It has adjacent retired sold the Ford Transit and Transit Custom vans this year, accidental Autocar.

The Ford Puma was archetypal released successful 2019 yet continues to beryllium a steadfast favourite with Brits and across Europe.

The in-demand model, a 6-speed manual, is powered by a 125 horsepower mild hybrid powerplant.

But what makes it peculiar favourable to UK drivers is its easiness to use, style, and all-round amusive factor.

The Kia Sportage took 2nd spot with 37,582 units sold arsenic the Nissan Qashqai came successful 3rd place.

The Nissan exemplary was archetypal successful 2022 earlier dropping a spot each twelvemonth since then.

One of the biggest movers from past twelvemonth is the Nissan Juke which present sits successful 4th with 28,727 units sold aft it antecedently took eighth spot successful 2023.

Rounding retired the apical 10 is Volkswagen Golf, Hyundai Tucson, Audi A3, Volkswagen Polo, Tesla Model Y and yet the MG HS.

They each sold betwixt 27,500 to 23,000 units successful 2024.

Despite being ninth successful the UK's hottest cars of the year, the Tesla Model Y was really the favourite car globally past year.

A staggering 1.22 cardinal units were sold crossed the satellite leaving billionaire business mogul Elon Musk to enactment connected upgrading the car adjacent further.

The first large update to the motor since it launched successful 2019 was announced backmost successful August.

It is acceptable to person a large facelift arsenic good arsenic the upgrades with hastily-taken snaps showing a caller full-width airy barroom embossed with the Tesla sanction moving on the sleek achromatic boot.