Nearly two thirds of car buyers rank reliability as the most important quality when buying a new or used car, according to a new What Car? Motoring Panel survey.
Arnold Clark is to carry out a group-wide rebrand and showroom revamp.
Dealers continued to achieve healthy selling prices for part-exchange stock at auction in January, in spite of a slight fall in average value throughout the first month of 2015.
Car dealer group Macrae & Dick has introduced two product 'geniuses' at its Menzies BMW and Mini centre in Stirling.
Arnold Clark Automobiles, Europe’s largest independent car dealer, has acquired Ness Motors.
The first official trials of autonomous cars have taken place in the UK, with a government minister claiming "driverless cars are the future".
The average UK car dealer finished the year strongly making a profit of £27,000 in December, an improvement of £5,000 over the prior year.
Profits at dealer group Pentagon almost tripled in 2014 on the back of a strong improvement in new and used car sales.
Toyota has set itself a target of raising £1 million for Comic Relief, with its dealers' help, by selling Red Noses for cars.
A new Mitsubishi dealership is set to open in Chesterfield, which will create jobs and see a new showroom built at Tapton Lock.
"Measures often say as much about how bad you were as they say how good you have become. Give me a modest 15% improvement every year. Every five years you will double your output and more importantly you will have built the capability to keep doing it and in 30 years you will be 6,000% better.”
Motor Codes has appointed former Chevrolet UK and Ireland director Mark Terry as its interim managing director.
HM Revenue & Customs is stepping up its investigations of the way car dealerships, vehicle rental firms and other businesses implement rules to average out benefit in kind tax charges on staff using multiple company cars.
Consumer new car finance volumes grew 13% in 2014 year-on-year and by 10% in December to reach a record annual level of 897,593 units.
Stratstone's Aston Martin business in Mayfair has been named the biggest selling Aston Martin dealership in the world, at the London World Dealer conference held in London yesterday.
