Toyota’s high-performance Yaris GR hot hatch has claimed the UK Car of the Year 2021 title to prevent a hat-trick of successive electric vehicle (EV) award wins.
Lookers PLC has appointed former Toyota GB president and managing director Paul Van der Burgh as a non-exec director.
In the first of two specially-written AM 'guest opinion' posts to mark International Women's Day, Jacqui Barker head of commercial at drivvn, explains why the drive towards digital and greater diversity in the workforce is set to transform car retail.
Advertisement feature from EMaC
Volkswagen has set-out its plan to leverage profitability from data as it focuses on a future of autonomous electric vehicles (EV) with its new Accelerate brand strategy.
Vertu Motors chief executive Robert Forrester has insisted that his business is not making a switch to online car sales after a 360% rise in end-to-end digital transactions in 2020.
A fraudulent car dealer who clocked-up £190,000 in sales has been issued with a suspended prison sentence and an order to repay over £33,000 in proceeds of crime.
Inchcape has revealed its plan to create a new Destination Porsche Centre premium car dealership in Bournemouth - substantially expanding the brand's presence in the coastal town.
A car sales executive has been spared jail after he admitted diverting more than £11,000 of dealership sales proceeds into his personal bank account.
Super-fit automotive sector fund-raisers walked, cycled and ran their way to a £159,000 charity windfall as part of the Breakout For Ben initiative.
Aston Barclay has partnered with the AA and VMS Group to provide its used car buyers with vehicle checks and a buyer guarantee before making their next stock purchase.
Stellantis has revealed the details of a restructured leadership structure for its range of former PSA Group and FCA Group car brands.
Vertu Motors has invested in robotic process automation (RPA) to help improve productivity across previously manual data entry processing tasks.
IAAF chief executive Wendy Williamson has confirmed that she will retire in August, after a seven-year tenure.
Euro NCAP has awarded five-star safety ratings to the Polestar 2 and Cupra Formentor, in it’s first round of testing this year.
Volkswagen UK has named Lookers Northallerton as its top-performing UK car dealer during a COVID-hit 2020 trading period.
Porsche GB’s growing franchised car retail network contributed to a February sales result which delivered growth amid a market down 35.5% due to the ongoing COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’ showroom closures.
Motorline was named as Hyundai Motor UK’s retail group of the year as its dealerships claimed retailer of the year and aftersales dealer of the year awards to mark a memorable hat-trick at the Korean car franchise’s annual awards.
Car dealers should be braced for “a third, successive dismal new plate month” in March after COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’ delivered another 35.5% decline to the UK’s new car registrations in February.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has pledged to continue to support businesses and jobs in a “fair and honest” 2021 Budget, but corporation tax rises are on the horizon.
Hyundai is now accepting orders for the new Santa Fe, which is available with hybrid and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) engines only.
Cox Automotive continues growth strategy with Codeweavers acquisition
Wilsons car retail group marketing manager Lauren Michael admitted that the COVID-19 crisis had "pushed its hand" towards ecommerce as the business launched a new sales website.
A What Car? survey of 2,359 in-market car buyers has found that 59% are now poised to purchase on April 12 following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement on the re-opening of retail after COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’.
BCA’s cinch online car retail platform has partnered with car dealers across the UK to launch a used car subscription offering called cinchCare.
AM100 car retail PLC Cambria Automobiles has reported that it has been “trading ahead” of its previous financial year during the first five months of its 2020/21 reporting period.
Orders placed for new vehicles fell by 18.3% in February and used dropped by 30% according to the latest figures from lead management firm, Dealerweb.
Car retail's switch to omnichannel retailing during successive COVID-19 lockdowns have ensured that used cars buyers have “never had it so good”, according to CarShop CEO, Nigel Hurley.
The number of cars expected to fail their MOT test in 2021 has increased, according to a new survey by the Motor Ombudsman.
Zerolight has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer car manufacturers a way of launching new models with a configurator on the online retail platform.
