Unlocking 'the promise of information technology' is a key factor in improving dealer group profitability over the next five years as macro-economic factors and market competition look set to constrain growth in return on sales.
Automotive specialist Motor Marketing Group has completed the acquisition of Motor Socials to expand its services for dealer groups.
Dealer tech firm Pinewood Technologies Group is making a £33 million acquisition of Dubai-based artificial intelligence and machine learning company Seez, with an aim to enhance its offerings to motor retailers.
Aird Motors, DM Keith and Proven Motor Company were among the UK's top performing Subaru dealers who collected trophies at the brand's annual conference and awards event.
A shortage of test stations capable of MOT testing heavy electric vans has led fleet operators to call for action.
The Renewable Energy Association (REA) is lobbying the UK Government for a range of measures to cut transport emissions, including making salary sacrifice schemes for electric vehicles (EVs) mandatory for medium and large businesses.
Toyota has developed a new hydrogen fuel cell system, with improved range and significantly lower costs, which it wants to start putting into cars and commercial vehicles.
The first delivery of Geely's Farizon SV electric vans to the UK happened this month at Felixstowe port in Suffolk.
Lloyds Banking Group, which owns Black Horse Motor Finance and Lex Autolease, has put another £700 million into its pot for potential compensation while it awaits the outcome of the car loan commission saga at the Supreme Court.
BMW staff at the Hams Hall engine plant in Warwickshire are striking over "broken promises" on pay and could affect production at BMW's factory in Oxford which produces Mini cars.
A Norfolk dealership has been fined £200,000 in a prosecution this month by the Health and Safety Executive after one of its technicians died in a horrific workplace accident.
The leadership team of KGM UK talk to Automotive Management about new product plans, dealer recruitment and their "slow and steady" growth objectives
The Independent Motor Dealers Association (IMDA) has welcomed two new but familiar faces onto its committee.
The judging panel for the AM Awards has expanded this year, welcoming two more very experienced and highly respected motor retail experts into the process which will study the awards entries from franchised and independent dealerships and dealer groups.
The UK has not received a real influx of Chinese new cars yet because there are other countries in Europe that are more profitable targets for the emerging brands, according to the head of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
