Smart has temporarily cut £600 off its Smart & Pulse derivative by offering 250 as a “limited edition' with the same specification. The special price is £6,995.
DaimlerChrysler UK was this week expected to make a new offer to its Mercedes dealers who are fighting a one-year notice of contract termination. DCUK this month issued a two-year notice while saying the original remained in place.
DAVID EVANS, Retail Motor Industry Federation chief executive, expects Block Exemption to be revised, not scrapped, but warns the timetable is tight.
Mitsubishi Motors UK is pumping £2m into Bristol Rugby Club over the next five years. The team will be renamed Bristol Shoguns.
Vehicle manufacturers are passing price pressures from consumers to their component makers and other suppliers, according to an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
Motor insurance specialist ASA Insurance has completed its initial launch in Northern Ireland with more than 80 dealers joining the scheme.
Rule F42 is threatening to stifle a source of revenue for dealers who make money from selling insurance-related products.
Jaguar is confident that the X-type, on sale from June, will take it into the mainstream executive car market. Ian Callum, Jaguar design chief, said the company was returning to its historic roots in a bid to lose its 'niche luxury' tag.
Pendragon is believed to be in the early stages of talks with at least one more high-profile US Jaguar dealership following a £13.5m acquisition in California.
Lloyds TSB and Chartered Trust motor finance are to be rebranded under the Black Horse logo.
Peugeot wants its dealers to adopt new corporate branding as it looks to sustain growing UK sales and improve customer loyalty. The announcement follows Toyota's planned £40m upgrade of its network.
London Motor Show organisers trying to attract carmakers to a new-look event have failed to gain the support of UK No1 seller Ford.
The Rover 75 is pleasing people who bought it two years ago and shares fifth place with the IS200 from Lexus, the champion of this year's JD Power survey.
Jaguar has again come second in US-based JD Power's assessment of the satisfaction (or otherwise) expressed by British owners of two-year-old S- and T-plated cars.
Honda is the first manufacturer to follow Mercedes-Benz with a UK brand centre approach to winning and keeping customers.
The rapid slide in second hand car values has stopped according to the latest EurotaxGlass's residual price index and are now experiencing a “dramatic recovery”.
MG Rover's chairman John Towers has said the company can survive as an independent carmaker.
Bates Motor Group has acquired the Veritas Volkswagen and Audi dealerships in Southend in a “multi-million pound” deal.
Renault pre-registered more cars in March than any manufacturer according to figures released by the SMMT.
The threat of strike action continues to hang over Peugeot's Ryton plant after the company resisted union pressure to revise its pay offer.
Manufacturers and dealers have rejected claims they are openly breaking strict rules on vehicle supply laid out in the Supply of New Cars Order 2000.
Vauxhall has opened its 250th MasterFit Centre in the UK, in Hemel Hempstead, which is part of an £800,000 redevelopment of the Oggelsby Vauxhall dealership.
Mitsubishi Motors has appointed Darren Holness as general manager of marketing. He joins from Ford of Britain where he was sales planning and analysis.
Ford and PSA Peugeot Citroen have made a significant step forward in their goal to become the world's diesel engine producers with the unveiling in Paris of the first jointly developed common rail power unit.
European Motor Holdings has entered the battle surrounding Mercedes-Benz UK and its dealers by questioning the legality of the 12-month termination notices issued last year.
##Minibadge--left## Volume production of the Mini One and Mini Cooper begins today at BMW Group's Oxford plant on schedule for a UK launch in July and a European launch in September.
##AM100logo--left## Nearly 150 motor industry executives have already booked places at the AM100 dinner when dealer groups' new ranking will be revealed before publication.
Seven leading UK automotive training and development specialists have joined forces in a bid to raise standards in the retail motor industry.
The Consumers' Association has sold its 'not for profit' internet car import operation Carbusters.com for £1.3m.
Phil Stones used to slip into overdrive to galvanise staff into action. Twenty or so years later, he and business life have changed.
