THE new generation of car supermarkets could soon be responsible for more than 50 per cent of new vehicle sales in the UK, helping to bring prices more in line with the rest of the EU within five years.

That is the view of Autolink, Britain’s fastest growing car supermarket chain, which is set to sell more than 10,000 cars in the next 12 months throughout the country.

Autolink - which has a site at Parkwood Industrial Estate, Maidstone - has changed the way motorists look at the new car market. Such has been the response that already 40 per cent of Autolink’s business is in the new car market.

Many consumers used to see imported cars as a risk in terms of getting replacement parts and also when it came to selling them. But Autolink managing director, Neil Di Silva, said pre-registered, delivery mileage cars were no different from those supplied by main dealers.

“They are identical in every way. We have full UK specification and have no indications to claim they are anything else. The only difference is that we can supply them at up to 28 per cent less than main dealers.

“When we first started trading six years ago, we estimated that we would sell around 1,500 used cars per year. Now we’re supplying up to 10,000 cars a year.”

For further information visit the website www.autolink.co.uk