Janice Kennedy will join Honda (UK) as its new head of sales for cars on December 1.
L&L Automotive has gone from “cornershop to superstore” with the opening of its third Mercedes-Benz showroom in Stevenage, the first time the manufacturer has had a presence in the rapidly expanding town.
More than 200 fleet dealers and their customers from the UK attended the Volks-wagen Fleet Congress and Tiguan launch in Spain.
Unions are meeting with potential bidders for Ford’s Jaguar and Land Rover brands today in a bid to gain support from ministers and workers.
Mercedes-Benz UK is “trying to resist the market pressures that are turning prestige into volume”, according to director of passenger cars Dermot Kelly.
Master mechanic Martyn Owen at Pebley Beach Suzuki Swindon has become the first person to win Suzuki Technician of the Year title three times.
The European market for new cars grew 5.6% (or 69,183 units) in October 2007 compared to the same month last year, with a total volume of 1,298,704 units.
Experian has confirmed Kirk Fletcher as its permanent managing director for its automotive division following his eight month period as acting MD.
If there’s currently no Kia showroom within a half-hour drive of your door, there should be soon.
Neil Moscrop, Peugeot UK’s new sales director, has set higher car and van sales twinned with better dealer profitability as his aims for 2008.
Industry figures insist the code of practice for the car servicing and repair industry is moving forward after the text of the code was agreed by all members of the Retail Motor Strategy Group (RMSG) last week.
There’s been quite a bit of talk on the AM Forum recently about differing standards between UK showrooms and those on the Continent.
Mitsubishi sold its entire 300 unit allocation of its new i city car within two and a half weeks when it was launched in July this year and has already sold 50% of its next UK allocation.
Caffyns has exchanged conditional contracts to sell its vacant freehold site in East Grinstead in Sussex to Alburn, the property developer.
Kia’s new Picanto and revised Sportage are now on sale in the UK.
The Fiat 500 has won the Car of the Year award after being voted for by an international jury made up of 58 journalists from 22 European countries.
Arnold Clark, Scotland’s dominant motor retailer, has made its biggest advance into England with the acquisition of the £250 million Patterson Motor Group.
Over the next 10 years, point of sales finance will continue to disappear.
Customer satisfaction scores will soon be made public on a new website being launched by Volkswagen.
Renault Group posted a 5.8% increase in car and LCV sales globally in October, compared with the same month in 2006.
In response to the DVLA’s recent decision to restrict DVLA keeper data access to members of accredited bodies, the FLA has become a DVLA Accredited Trade Association (ATA).
The Retail Motor Industry Federation has been accused of confusing bodyshops with the introduction of its own cut price repair standard.
Subscribers to Thatcham’s methods and times product, Escribe, are used to receiving up to the minute repair information via technical profiles, early methods and the comprehensive full methods data issued regularly by the centre’s research technicians.
Nationwide Accident Repair Services has won contracts with Norwich Union and Zenith Insurance, estimated to be worth £70 million.
A technician with John Clark Motor Group in Scotland has won the Volkswagen Service UK Championship.
Nationwide Autocentres is beginning its expansion programme which it claims will add at least 20 sites a year to the network.
Car drivers are less likely to visit the workshop to have their wheel nuts re-torqued after a tyre change than commercial vehicle operators, according to a survey by the National Tyre Distributors’ Association.
Gus Gregory, managing director of workshop equipment supplier Maha UK, is retiring at the end of the year.
Windrush Volkswagen in Slough has gained Trade Parts Specialist (TPS) status with VW Group.
Ford of Europe has appointed Mark Deans, latterly a senior member of Ford of Britain's Sales and Marketing team, to the newly-created position of motorsport director.
