Monorep’s Vauxhall dealership in Hayes has successfully held an exhibition for disabled drivers, the elderly and wheelchair users in its showroom.
Rapid/NDP has awarded Bosal with its supply contract for exhausts, catalytic converters and towbars, worth £12 million, following a review of rival suppliers.
LSUK, the aftermarket components distributor, has boosted its coverage of the UK vehicle parc of brake shoes, brake pads, brake discs and wheel cyclinders to 96%.
Workers at Pirelli Tyres’ sites in Carlise and Burton-on-Trent will hold a one-day strike on August 25 in a dispute over pay.
Pendragon has reported profits before tax of £42.3 million and revenue of £2.7 billion for the half year to the end of June.
A car trader who defrauded nearly £200,000 from customers has been jailed for a year.
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.
