Inchcape has given a profit warning for 2009, stating that its sales declines would be wider than previously anticipated.
Land Rover has launched a new model which engine stops when its is stationary to reduce its emissions output.
Ford’s fastest-ever European production car the 2009 Focus RS will be priced from £24,995 when it goes on sale in the UK in March.
SsangYong is now offering free seven-day drive away insurance on its models in association with Norwich Union.
In the bleak mid-winter, as buyers shun showrooms and recession looms, it’s a difficult time to be selling cars. Especially big, thirsty and expensive ones. But to find out just how difficult, I recently spent a day in Stuttgart speaking to the top brass at Porsche.
Kia's new Soul supermini, on sale from February, will boost the company's 2009 sales to around 33,000, a respectable increase from the 31,500 it will sell this year, says managing director Paul Philpott.
Some of the UK’s many large car showrooms have already been closed in the current downturn, and the same fate awaits others in 2009.
Sales of used cars during Q3 2008 fell to their lowest point since 1999, according to the latest statistics from Experian, the global information services company.
HR Owen is searching for a new two acre site for its Jack Barclay Bentley car servicing business following the American Embassy’s acquisition of its Wandsworth site.
The US Senate has rejected the £9.4 billion emergency loan offer to rescue General Motors, Ford and Chrysler.
Five van makers and numerous major truck makers have said they will not exhibit at the 2009 Commercial Vehicle Show.
The US House of Representatives has voted in favour of a £9.4bn loan package for GM, Ford and Chrysler.
Credit hire and claims management group Accident Exchange has scrapped its interim dividend as it swung to a loss in the six months to November 1.
Lancia’s return to UK showrooms has fallen victim to the economic crisis, AM can reveal.
With the market now in the traditionally slow period there is a sense that the true nature of the downturn is masked.
A few months ago, Conservative environment spokesman John Selwyn Gummer (the one who force-fed his child a beefburger during the BSE crisis) complained on Radio 4 about drivers buying, “gas-guzzling, turbocharged cars”.
Fiat has awarded an Abarth franchise to Guernsey dealer group boss Dave Beausire who has grown sales of new Fiats over the past five years.
Having been firmly entrenched in the 4x4 camp in recent years with its X-Trail, Murano, Pathfinder and Patrol models, Nissan is upbeat about its opportunities at the small car end of the market.
Yes, we will lose a lot of sales points next year - we've lost a lot already this year - some of which will convert into used cars or authorised repairers. But the final figure may not be as high as the doomsayers are forecasting.
Renault UK says the latest phase of its network regeneration plan has enabled dealers’ average profitability to remain static.
Detroit-based Chrysler will slash its global marketing spend by a fifth next year.
Advertising watchdogs have again criticised Toyota over claiming "low emissions" in its marketing.
Indian carmaker Mahindra and Mahindra is reportedly considering buying Volvo.
Chrysler UK has appointed Jonathan Shaw as chief financial officer and Rob Hatfield as its new sales director with immediate effect.
The SMMT has taken its campaign raising awareness of the poor state of the motor industry to BBC2's Newsnight.
Administrators for Richard Alexander Group told 40 staff from its former Otley site they are redundant.
Frank Massey is holding a technical conference in February.
Chris Caygill has resigned as managing director of Porsche Retail Group.
Fiat needs a partner to survive, according to the chief executive.
Daimler is reducing the working week at its largest Mercedes Benz factory due to a slump in the market.
