Land Rover has confirmed to AM its plans for a new corporate identity programme, dubbed the 21st Century Retail Environment, due to be rolled out next year.
Thurlow Nunn, one of East Anglia’s largest new and used car dealer groups, has closed its Subaru, Isuzu and Mitsubishi dealership in Downham Market, Norfolk.
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The new car market has declined by 4.2% in July, down to 168,015 units.<P>
Saab GB has teamed up with UKI Partnerships in a three-year contract to provide motor insurance its customers.
More Than insurance is offering up to 40% off car insurance for drivers aged between 18 and 25 if they don’t drive between the hours of 11pm and 6am.
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Vauxhall’s fifth generation Astravan, which goes on sale next month, priced from £9,995 excluding VAT, will be built in the UK.
A new website promising van manufacturers and retailers a cost effective solution to reaching customers has been launched, with the backing of a number of leading UK motor retail names.
Tickets are now on sale for the MPH ’06 automotive show, hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, at Birmingham’s NEC (Oct 26-29) and London’s Earls Court (Nov 2-5).
Mitsubishi has dropped its outside training agency and brought the dealer sales and aftersales programmes in-house at its Cirencester, Gloucestershire, head office.
Pendragon is to sell eight dealerships in England and Scotland to avoid breaking anti-competition rules relating to its takeover of Reg Vardy.
Alfa Romeo UK is to downsize its dealer network to ensure the remaining retailers are focused on delivering better service and facilities.
Used cars have been instrumental in doubling Mazda retailer profitability during the first five months of this year, as sales of used cars climbed by 20% year-on-year to the end of May.
Project Kimber has still not announced a brand name for the sportscars it plans to build, based on the Smart roadster and coupé axed by DaimlerChrysler.
Loughborough University is working with car manufacturers to help meet new European targets that state 95% of all car components must be recycled by 2015.
Cenex has announced it will support the electric version of the Smart FourTwo by allocating direct funding to its pilot programme, due in late November.
Jim Punter, chairman of the MoT Trade Forum, says the rise in the maximum fee a garage can charge for carrying out an MoT is vital, especially since the introduction of computerization.
Independent supplier GSF Car Parts has won a national distribution contract for the full range of products from German aftermarket specialist FK Automotive.
Bosch’s OE unit injectors are now available to aftermarket suppliers on an exchange basis.
Fiat Commercial Vehicles is implementing a major restructuring of its dealer network, designed to strengthen aftersales support available to customers.
Safetykleen UK, the parts washing and automotive services company, has acquired Malary Environmental Services, the Cambridgeshire-based company that provides national waste oil collection and recycling services as well as a parts washing service.
British Car Auctions’ Pot of Gold campaign has raised nearly £50,000 for the charity BEN.
The Honda Jazz is Britain’s most reliable new car scoring 95% in the latest Which? reliability survey.
The British International Motor Show is being hailed a success by its organiser as early reports suggest 411,070 people visited the London’s Docklands event.
Jaguar has denied a fresh wave of speculation over its future Ford ownership.
The BMW Group surpassed its own records for both quarterly and half-year car sales volumes, in the last accounting period of outgoing chairman Helmut Panke.
HR Owen has sold the group's three Audi dealerships to Spire Automotive Ltd, a management buy-out team headed by Darren Guiver.
Vehicles will soon become too complex for general all-makes bodyshops to repair competently, which could result in insurance companies being liable for personal injuries or fatalities that arise from incorrectly repaired cars, according to a new research study on the car repair industry.
Automotive retail group Inchcape plc, the international automotive retail group, has this morning reported a rise in profit before tax of 11.1% to £112 million in the six months of the year to June 30.
