UK Business Succession Index

Motor Vehicle Dealers succession in South East

854 of 3,036 motor vehicle dealers companies in South East — 28.1% — have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 1st highest of 6 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured3,036
Director aged 60+854
Exposure rate28.1%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
3,036
Companies measured
854
Director 60+
294
Director 70+
28.1%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; motor vehicle dealers nationally runs at 24.7%.

MeasureCompanies
Motor Vehicle Dealers companies in South East measured3,036
Oldest director aged 60 or over854
Oldest director aged 70 or over294

Of the 854 with a director over 60, 48 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Motor Vehicle Dealers in other regions

Region60+Rate
Scotland32935.8%
Wales30635.6%
South West57735%
North East20430.5%
Northern Ireland18826.6%
East of England55324.8%
Yorkshire & The Humber54023.8%
North West63923.3%

Other trades in South East

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services14,45541.6%
Lettings9,87342.9%
Retail6,01526.7%
IT Services / Consultancy5,39225.7%
Investment5,38533.7%
Other Leisure5,36433.2%
Investment / Fund Management4,38040.3%
Property Development4,17046.3%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Automotive pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Automotive →

See all Motor Vehicle Dealers succession data or everything in South East.

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ExitRadar, "Motor Vehicle Dealers succession in South East", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/auto-dealer/south-east/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.