Average wholesale used van values increased by 3.8% (£146) to £4,015 in September despite an increase in both average age and mileage.
A web-based sales generator that claims to bring car buyers direct to dealers has been launched.
Two dealerships, Vantage Toyota York and Pentagon Toyota, have supplied 60 Auris hybrid hatchbacks and 50 Aygos to York's largest car hire company, Autohorn Fleet Services.
Dealers still have a long way to go to exploit the oportunities provided by GAP insurance, according to research that shows that in the past year motorists have faced a collective insurance pay-out shortfall of £619 million for written off or stolen cars.
Auto Trader has enhanced its 'dealer community' initiative with the launch today of its innovation programme.
A police helicopter and sniffer dogs were called out to track down crooks who caused thousands of pounds of damage to display vehicles at two Burton car dealerships.
Motorauctions Leeds has gone into administration after 25 years of trading amid fears that a buyer may not be found to take on the business.
A little over a year after taking up the post as chief executive, Andy Duncan is leaving HR Owen it has been announced today.
Kia has added a new top-of-the-range '4' version to its cee'd and cee'd SW line-ups.
Development of Vertu Motors' multi-million pound Vauxhall brand centre in Chingford has started.
Spotted on a dealer group website: "If you have some spare chairs which need a loving home, we would be more than happy to help you! So you maybe thinking, would we accept chairs as a part-ex on a Budgen Motors car? Absolutely.Just check out our current range, and surprise one of our sales executives when they ask to see your part-ex.."
In these days of social media to excess, it should come as no surprise there is a forum for the VW Caddy.
Car buyers are proving unresponsive to the financial incentives provided by manufacturers and the Government to buy electric vehicles.
Southampton-based Snows Group’s chairman Stephen Snow and group board director Neil McCue, who also heads up the five-strong Volvo division, climbed Kilimanjaro and raised more than £20,000 for a local children’s charity.
2011 will be remembered as a year of considerable challenges to the automotive industry, a period of battening down the hatches to ride out of the stormy economic conditions and lacklustre consumer confidence.
