Ford’s company car business is leading UK corporate sales with a 15.9 per cent share for the year to July 2012; up from 15.4 per cent for last year.

Ford’s company sales of 95,752 cars and 32,654 vans make up 62 per cent of its total vehicle sales.

The Dagenham-built 1.6-litre TDCi engine is the UK’s most popular engine choice for company car managers and accounts for a quarter of all the powerplants in its corporate sales.

Biggest growth has been seen in the C-MAX which has seen a 22 per cent increase.  The Ford Galaxy is close behind with a 20 per cent rise.  Further corporate sales increases have been recorded by the Ford Fiesta, Focus and Mondeo with sales up seven per cent, three per cent and three per cent respectively. The new Ford B-MAX is now on sale and is expected to record over 6,000 company sales in its first full year.

Kevin Griffin, Ford of Britain fleet director, said: “Ford sells its vehicles across all sectors of the UK fleet markets.  We are seeing growing interest around the 1.0-litre EcoBoost petrol engine, with 40 per cent of Ford Focus 1.0-litre EcoBoost sales going to fleet buyers, despite the market being diesel-led,” he continued.

Ford continues to lead the UK commercial vehicle corporate market with a 26.7 per cent share.  The Transit tops UK commercial vehicle fleet sales with 27,006 registrations. It remains Ford’s third best-selling vehicle in Britain.

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