Cambria Automobiles plc provided trading update for the first three months of the current financial year 2017-2018. The Group's trading performance in the first three months of the current financial year 2017-18 has been in line with the Board's expectations, albeit behind the corresponding period in 2016/17, both on a total and like-for-like basis. The weaker new car market has seen pressure on both volumes and margins across the three month period. New vehicle unit sales for the quarter were down 16.3% (like-for-like down 14.4%), with gross profit per retail unit also reducing over the same period. Used vehicle sales continued to perform well on a like-for like basis. Whilst total used unit sales were down 9.2%, including the lost units from Swindon Motor Park (closed January 2017), like-for-like units were down 2.8% compared with the same period in the prior year. This unit reduction was offset by continued improvement in gross profit per unit and this performance has again enhanced the profit from the used car segment of the business. Overall, the Group's after sales operations delivered a good performance, with revenue increasing by 0.3% (like-for-like up 6.1%), with profitability down 0.7% year on year (like-for-like excluding the two body shops and Swindon Motor Park up 5.9%). The Group's after sales results have been impacted in total by some of the new franchising decisions that have been taken. These have necessitated the closure of the Group's body shop operations in two locations in order to facilitate the property development for the new franchises. The impact of the body shop closures has been excluded in the like-for-like analysis.