Peter Vardy has acquired its second Vauxhall dealership in Scotland.
Nationwide Accident Repair Services, the UK largest bodyshop group, is to sell two sites to insurer Norwich Union, which operates its own bodyshop chain Solus.
Workshops are set to benefit from BP Lubricants’ biggest relaunch of the Castrol brand in its 100-year history.
VOSA’s troubled MoT Computerisation project has been short-listed for ‘Best Project’ at the Government Computer Awards.
Kia dealers require immediate actions from the carmaker to tackle profit issues after a poor 2006, according to UK managing director Paul Philpott.
Ford dealers’ profits rose last year due, in part, to the actions taken by Ford to cut costs under Project 50.
Macquarie Goodman, the Australian property developer, has bought Jaguar's Browns Lane Coventry site for an undisclosed sum from Ford.
Parts and accessory distributor Maccess has its sights set on expanding its network of branches this year.
Better parts availability is key to Alfa Romeo’s turnaround in UK, according to UK managing director Christopher Nicoll.
The 25 millionth Golf has rolled off the Volkswagen production line in Wolfsburg.
Dealers should adopt a ‘back to basics’ approach to large 4x4 sales in an effort to counter the sales threat posed by environmental concerns revealed in the Budget.
DuPont Refinish is introducing a new basecoat waterborne range, Cromax, which is fully-compliant with 2007 VOC emissions legislation.
Toyota has introduced vehicle stability control (VSC) with traction control (TRC) as an option across the Yaris range.
Toyota has made a few subtle changes to its Avensis this spring.
Brake lights that grow in size the harder a driver pushes them are being developed in Canada.
The Car Shop Megastore plans to double its number of car supermarkets this year to six.
The first Chinese-built MGs have rolled off the production line at Nanjing Automobile’s factory in eastern China.
Infiniti, Nissan’s luxury brand, will reveal its new G37 Coupe for the first time on April 6 at the New York International Auto Show.
Auction group BCA is claiming a new record UK auction value for a current production model, selling a Rolls-Royce Phantom at its Nottingham Top Car Sale for £208,000 earlier this month.
The Office of Fair Trading has given a motor finance company a public warning over credit advertising, and reminded dealers to ensure their marketing is legal.
Kings Volvo has appointed Ivan Harris as group corporate sales manager, after boosted fleet interest from the launch of the new C30.
New car prices in the UK increased by 0.3% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2006.
GMAP, the UK supplier of market intelligence to the automotive industry has launched MOTORVISION for dealers, a combined territory, customer and prospect management service.
BSI has become the first and only product certification body to achieve the Royal Crown and Tick accreditation from UKAS for its Thatcham BSI Kitemark scheme, aimed at raising quality and safety standards in crash repair.
Over 6,000 former MG Rover employees have had their pensions saved by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).
With its newest ad, BMW is trying to appeal to a target audience that is outside its core customer range of social climbers.
The European Commission is investigating commitments proposed by four carmakers to give independent repair shops adequate access to technical information.
Tony Bramall, former boss of the now Pendragon owned CD Bramall, has sold 10,000,000 of his Lookers shares at 208 pence each, representing 5.5% of the existing issued share capital of the company.
Volkswagen will feed new information to potential customers on its new small-SUV, the Tiguan, through a new microsite.
Bosses at American brand Dodge have revealed there will be three more new models on sale in the UK within the next 18 months.
