A major new initiative urging motorists to use independent garages for servicing cars up to three years old is doomed to failure, according to industry experts.
Nissan could receive a Government aid package if it agrees to build the Almera replacement at its factory in Sunderland rather than move production into the eurozone.
Volkswagen has won a crucial court battle overturning a 31 million euro fine imposed by the EC in 2001 for alleged price collusion with its German dealers.
A new online service launched by Autoebid claims to be the first-to-the-market reverse auction for new car buyers in the UK
Only eight out of 36 MOT tests in a recent Which? undercover investigation were carried out correctly, and the magazine says an increasing number of garages were passing faulty cars compared to a similar exercise carried out five years ago.
Workers represented by the Amicus trade union at Land Rover will be staging a 24-hour strike on 26th January as part of their continuing action to reject the company's pay offer.
Two variants based on GM's Ypsilon platform shared by the Saab 9-3 and Opel/Vauxhall Vectra are being considered as the basis for a Cadillac targeted at European sales, according to sources within GM quoted by Automotive News Europe.
The NAT eGateway, described as “the first automotive aftermarket products & insurance digital hub”, was introduced this week at the 2004 Automotive News World Congress by NAT, Inc.
Independent motor factors will save money on parts costs after one of the UK's biggest parts suppliers announced it is cutting prices.
This year was something of a rollercoaster. We saw record registrations coupled with some difficult times on the retail front, particularly during the summer months.
The market is not what it seems. The advertising blurb over the last two years has led many of us to perceive the used car market as a declining one.
Sheila McKechnie, the director of the Consumers' Association has died of cancer aged 55.
December's registrations of 26,010 vehicles represented an all time record for the month, and registrations climbed for 11 of the last 12 months to a 2003 total of 363,687, just below the all time registration record of 371,104 set in 1989.
Nigel Sandy joins the board of Universal Salvage plc as an executive director, with effect from today, 12 January. At the end of March 2004, Mr Sandy will take over the role of chief executive from Martin Hynes, who will remain on the board as an executive director in order to complete a smooth handover. Martin Hynes intends to retire from the board completely on 30 June.
After Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn's suggested last week that the decision on whether the Almera's successor would be built at Sunderland could depend on Britain's accession to the euro zone, a DTI official was reported by The Observer of 11 January to underline the importance of attracting the company's fresh investment to the North East.
Alchemy Performance Development Ltd (APD), a specialist automotive market research and consulting firm founded in 2003 by former Mitac executive Paul Turner, has developed Internet-based market research capabilities for vehicle suppliers.
Rover knew it was on to a winner when they designed the MGF. It revived that famous octagonal badge, was fun to drive, and it cashed in on a demand for affordable soft-top motoring that had been re-kindled by the Mazda MX-5.
High profile repairer Dave Shepherd has alerted the crash repair sector via the Autobody Projects online forum to the dangers faced by reduced parts margins from Ford.
Thatcham is to represent the British insurance sector within Euro NCAP now that representatives from Thatcham have become members of Euro NCAP's Board of Directors. The union will enable an exchange of data on vehicle safety development.
ADP Claims Services Group, a division of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ABZ Group B.V., a private company in the Netherlands, which has been one of ADP subsidiary Audatex's licensees since 1981.
PSA Peugeot Citroen's 2003 UK sales declined 9.1% and market share came to 11.9%, and the group admits its revenues were affected by the euro's appreciation against the pound.
Registrations to private buyers of 1.254 million units weren't the only headline news in the 2003 new car market.
Experian has increased the range of its indemnity cover to a maximum of £50,000 and 36 months per vehicle.
Average retail prices for new cars in the UK rose by 4.7% over last year, according to eurocarprice.com/PwC.
Ford's Premier Automotive Group – comprising Land Rover, Jaguar, Aston Martin and Volvo – is reported to have returned a profit for the first time since it was formed in the late 1990s.
Preliminary figures from JD Power-LMC indicate that the West European car market dropped 1.7% in 2003, with a much better total than many had feared at the start of the year, of 14.3 million units.
After December sales up 7% year on year a total of 2,579,050 new cars were sold in the UK last year.
MG Rover has followed its recent sale of 18 acres of Longbridge land to Advantage West Midlands with the sale of 228 acres, including 4.24m sq ft of buildings, to St. Modwen Properties. The sale netted £42.5 million.
Following its December statement concerning the future of the MOT test fee, MVRA has expanded on the reasons why it's against the other aftermarket trade associations' campaign to make the maximum test fee mandatory.
According to the CAP NVD database the number of new car model ranges on sale in the UK now stands at 760 – with a total of 5,776 derivatives.
