- Ford lifts markets share to nearly 38%
- Stellantis combined (four brands) is only 23.2%
- Ford Transit Custom second best selling vehicle of 2025
- Citroen on the sales skids
WHEN it comes to LCV registrations there’s Ford and then there’s everyone else.
While March marked the fourth month of decline overall for LCV sales with a 3.2% drop, Ford increased registrations by nearly 9%. Year-to-date, the market is now down 10.6% this year, Ford is up 7%.
In unit terms, Ford is currently up 2,080 units this year. The next best performer is MAN, which is up just 293 sub-3.5t vans. Ford’s increase plus the market decline means the brand’s market share is now at a whopping 37.7%, up from 31.5% a year ago.
Adding the four Stellantis LCV brands together only gives you 23.2% of the market. Individually, the next nearest single brand is Volkswagen with 9% of the market.
The Ford Transit Custom isn’t just the best selling van year-to-date, it’s the UK’s second best-selling vehicle of 2025, just a few hundred registrations behind the Ford Puma.
Pick up a pick-up before April tax changes
Ahead of tax changes which will treat double-cab pick-ups registered in the new tax year as cars for company car tax, March was a rush to get as many into customers’ hands as possible.
Ford’s Ranger is almost always in the top 10 best-selling vans chart, but it was joined by the Toyota Hilux in March.
Isuzu, which recently launched a new D-Max pick-up, also did well in the month, as did KGM with the Musso pick-up.
Falling fast - Citroen on the skids
With three of the five fastest falling LCV brands, Stellantis is not having a great first quarter to 2025. Citroen was the fastest faller, down 2,297 vans in the first three months and as a group, Stellantis is down more than 5,700 vans this year.
However, Stellantis claims to sell more electric vans than any other OEM and has registered 1,958 BEV vans in 2025, 20% more than the next best EV brand, presumably Ford.
Five fastest growing brands YTD
Five fastest falling brands YTD
1 Ford +2,080
2 MAN +293
3 KGM +198
4 Nissan +166
5 Isuzu +133
5 Fiat -1,200
4 Mercedes -1,439
3 Vauxhall -1,725
2 Volkswagen -2,230
1 Citroen -2,297
Source: SMMT
Electrification up, but not enough
Battery electric vans are starting to increase in popularity and volume, however, their mix is still well adrift of the ZEV Mandate for 2025.
With a target of 16% EV mix for the year, the first quarter of 2025 has not gone well. Just 7.6% of vans registered so far are electric. At this point last year, the mix was 5.2% with a year-end target of 10%.
Read our new van market analysis of February 2025 registrations
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Tristan Young is an award winning journalist with more than 25 years’ experience reporting on the automotive industry focussing predominantly on fleet and retail. As a self-confessed petrol-head, Tristan has a weakness for car classifieds. When he’s not writing about the automotive industry, he can usually be found outdoors with a small pack of border collies.
