How did Autocar's 2021 predictions fare?
We also tipped EVs’ UK new-car market share to hit 10% in or just after 2022 – and it seems that we were quite pessimistic. At the time of writing, 15.2% of cars sold this year have been battery-electric, which is more than double the number of diesel-engined machines sold.
That’s just one way in which the pandemic and the chip crisis affected our predictions. We suggested that manufacturers will start paring back their model ranges as consolidation and cost-cutting accelerated post-pandemic. That’s certainly happening in some instances, although largely through the elimination of diesel powertrains and chip shortages forcing firms to focus on key model lines.
We also believed the Toyota GR Yaris would be a huge hit that could revive the hot hatch market. That was backed up by the waiting list for the car stretching more than a year . In fact, perhaps the best sign of the impact of the ’s impact is that there already seems to be a backlash from people claiming it’s overhyped. Those people are wrong, by the way.After much of the 2020 motorsport season took place behind closed doors, we predicted that fans would flock back to tracks this year. The sight of huge crowds at Formula 1 races proved that right. It still felt a bit odd seeing so many people in one place, but there’s no doubt that the fans at Silverstone and Zandvoort really added to the atmosphere.
We nearly smashed two of our on-track predictions in one race. We predicted that Sebastian Vettel would put
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