Daewoo is restructuring its fleet department, decentralising operations in favour of showroom-based corporate sales specialists.
BMW says it has drawn a line under its financial involvement with Rover, which cost it £2.5 billion and involved losses of £471m.
Kia is celebrating the success of its seven seat Sedona MPV, sales of which have increased by 155% year-on-year to the end of April.
Internal disagreements about the marketing strategy at the BSkyB's business-to-business Automotive Channel have been blamed for it being shut down today.
Honda today opens a training centre for its dealership staff in Colnbrook, near Heathrow.
The seven senior members of the LSUK management team, backed by NBGI Private Equity, have carried out a management buy-out of the automotive parts and service business formerly owned by the Finelist Group.
A weak European market contributed to Fiat Auto making an operating loss in the first quarter of 2001, which offset attempts to streamline the company within the GM family.
General Motors is to encourage the greater sharing of Vauxhall and Saab retail sites.
Real-time traffic information provider Trafficmaster and Motorola announced today their plan to jointly produce the first remote navigation system for the mass market that incorporates real-time, traffic data.
Specialist motor finance provider Singer & Friedlander has opened a sales centre in the south east.
The UK became the third largest market in the world for Ferrari and second largest for Maserati during 2000.
The latest auction prices from BCA, Manheim, Cars Direct and Premier Motorauctions Leeds.
DaimlerChrysler UK is facing compensation claims running into millions of pounds from its Mercedes-Benz dealers who are facing contract termination at the end of this year.
Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motors is recalling 480 of its top-of-the-range models after leaking fuel vapours caused one of the vehicles to explode at a US dealership.
A report issued today by automotive pricing analyst, eurocarprice.com (http://www.eurocarprice.com), reveals that new cars are becoming cheaper in most European markets because nominal price increases by manufacturers are outweighed by specification improvements.
Daewoo Motor, Korea, has reported its first operating profit for nearly three years.
Inchcape Retail has acquired the Nissan franchise in Shrewsbury. It becomes only the third Inchcape Retail dealership to trade under the Inchcape banner and is the company's first Nissan outlet.
BMC, the Milton Keynes car dealer, has created an hourly car rental scheme for students at Cranfield University.
Skoda achieved record sales in April, selling 2,819 cars. Sales were up 43.1% compared to April 2000.
The number of car showrooms has fallen year on year, according to the annual survey of suppliers to the UK car market, by the Institute of the Motor Industry.
Preliminary calculations have revealed an unexpected trend in the 2001 AM100 which will be published in the issue of Automotive Management which reaches readers on May 25.
Partners in Training & Consultancy has launched a telephone sales monitoring service that it believes will help dealers boost customer appointment rates.
Jaguar is revamping its dealer network ready for the launch of X-type, which is expected to attract a younger customer base. It is the third carmaker to announce network changes this year, following Toyota and Peugeot.
Fiat and Alfa Romeo Financial Services has launched two motor finance web sites allowing potential customers to configure their choice of Fiat or Alfa Romeo on-line, assess the value of their current vehicle, and find out how much the new vehicle could cost per month.
Reg Vardy has appointed Nick Page and Andy Davies to its operational board.
Used car sales locator Auto Online has joined forces with On-Market.net to give industry buyers access to vehicle information from their mobile phone. On-Market was founded last year by Lindsay Levin, chairman of South-east dealer Whites Group.
Buyers of prestige cars are happy to use the web for research but prefer to talk to specialist staff about a potential purchase, said Sytner Group chief executive Laurence Vaughan.
More than 70% of website visitors would buy a car online, according to a March internet poll conducted by web portal company Uknetguide.co.uk.
A boom in demand for paintless dent removal services in the UK is being predicted by Dentwizard which expects the worldwide market to be worth more than £250m over the next four years.
Audi UK forecasts that new tax rules would generate around 2,000 extra corporate car sales for the company this year.
