UK Business Succession Index

Motor Vehicle Dealers succession in South West

577 of 1,649 motor vehicle dealers companies in South West — 35% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,649
Director aged 60+577
Exposure rate35%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
1,649
Companies measured
577
Director 60+
218
Director 70+
35%
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 West measured1,649
Oldest director aged 60 or over577
Oldest director aged 70 or over218

Of the 577 with a director over 60, 55 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%
North East20430.5%
South East85428.1%
Northern Ireland18826.6%
East of England55324.8%
Yorkshire & The Humber54023.8%
North West63923.3%

Other trades in South West

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services6,65843%
Lettings6,11444.9%
Retail4,23932%
Other Leisure3,12436%
Agriculture2,77756.9%
Property Development2,71648.2%
Investment2,68537.7%
Investment / Fund Management2,47340%

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.

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

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

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.