{"id":231821,"date":"2026-01-07T06:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/231821\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T06:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:28:22","slug":"northern-irelands-most-popular-motor-revealed-as-four-years-of-growing-new-car-sales-go-into-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/231821\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland\u2019s most popular motor revealed as four years of growing new car sales go into reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Kia Sportage was the most popular new car sold in Northern Ireland in 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ab830923-59df-405a-a749-43f26dae4870.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Kia Sportage was the most popular new car sold in Northern Ireland in 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Kia Sportage was Northern Ireland\u2019s most popular car over a disappointing 2025 for sales of new vehicles, an industry body said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) reveal that 2025 brought a drop of nearly 9% in the number of new cars registered here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kia Sportage was the most popular new car sold in Northern Ireland in 2025 The Kia Sportage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,30060,43],"class_list":["post-231821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-margaret-canning","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}