Former Lookers, Manheim and Rapid RTC employee Matt Maley has joined automotive retail video specialist Vehicles in Vision as sales and operations director.
Citygate Automotive has opened the doors to a new Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles van centre in St Albans.
The Ben automotive benevolent charity looks set to be handed a £500,000 Christmas gift after the Ben Ball 2021 succeeded in delivering a £96,500 festive fund-raising boost.
John Clark Motor Group has completed a multi-million refurbishment to transform its former BMW Tayside dealership into a new home for its Volvo Car UK franchise.
Vertu Motors has deployed some of its “M&A firepower” to complete the £9.2 million acquisition of two-site Toyota franchised car retailer Farmer and Carlisle.
The UK must move away from “20th century thinking centred around private vehicle ownership” and towards shared mobility, Transport Minister Trudy Harrison MP has said.
Vertu Motors has completed a £600,000 investment a new Bristol Street Motors aftersales service centre specialising in Stellantis brands Vauxhall, Citroen, and Peugeot.
Consumer car finance remained up 7% by volume in the year to the end of October despite an 11% decline in October, according to Finance and Leasing Association (FLA) data.
Nissan has officially opened order books for its new Ariya flagship electric vehicle (EV) – with prices startying from £41,845.
Cinch will be the first-ever sponsor of Simon Cowell’s new ITV musical game show, Walk The Line.
BMW, Genesis, Mercedes, Nissan, Skoda and Volkswagen were all celebrating five-star Euro NCAP ratings as seven new cars scored strongly on safety in the latest round of crash tests.
Euro NCAP has slammed the crash test performance of the Renault Zoe and Dacia Swing electric vehicles, suggesting that safety has become “collateral damage” in the group’s transition to EVs.
As certain used cars were hit by “significant price decreases” in November Cox Automotive has asserted that prices will never dip back to pre-pandemic levels.
Marshall Motor Holdings chief executive Daksh Gupta has called for OEMs to accelerate cuts to their franchised networks as part of efforts to solve the retail sector’s staffing crisis.
Stellantis plans to accelerate its turnover from software-enabled services and subscriptions to €4bn (£3.4bn) in 2026 and €20bn (£17bn) in 2030 as its transitions to a new role as a “sustainable mobility tech company”.
