Chevrolet is offering accredited ADI driving school instructors the opportunity to buy its products at special discounted prices.
The Skoda Roomster will go on sale in the UK this September available with a choice of three petrol and two diesel engines and priced from under £10,000.
Pentagon Group has launched five new websites to represent its own brand, as well as its Vauxhall, Peugeot, Saab and Chevrolet franchises.
Maserati will put its new MC12 Corsa (not related to Vauxhall) into production for a select number of clients.
Workshops in franchise dealers need to restructure the way they handle bonuses, according to motor industry consultancy Forester Grant Associates.
Rory Harvey has been appointed managing director of Chevrolet UK following Andy Carroll's resignation.
BMW is launching own brand and MINI credit cards and other financial products in conjunction with American Express, the Newcastle Building Society, and the Royal Bank of Scotland subsidiary UK Insurance.
Increased manufacturer-imposed standards do not help dealers to sell more cars, the RMI National Franchised Dealers Association is warning.
Car supermarket, The Car People, has launched a new website aimed at providing customers with a hassle free way to find their next car.
Michelin chairman Edouard Michelin has died in a fishing accident off the coast of Brittany.
Renault has opened a new training centre to set education programmes for its entire sales network.
Kim Woo-choong, the founder of Daewoo Group, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail.
A Shropshire car component maker has unveiled plans to create new jobs after winning a multi-million pound contract with Volvo.
Volkswagen will sign an agreement with the Russian economics ministry to open a new car-making plant in Kaluga, just south west of Moscow, on Monday.
BEN, the motor and allied trades benevolent fund, will be running its own national five-a-side football championship in July.
More than 20,000 US General Motors workers have accepted voluntary redundancy or early retirement.
Honda has developed a plant-based fabric for use as a material for car interiors.
KYB, the shock absorber manufacturer, has appointed Paul Smith as its new business manager.
A degree programme designed to help motor retailers recruit and train their managers of the future is being launched this autumn.
The British International Motor Show (July 20-30, at ExCel, London) will feature its first careers village.
One almost universal truth is that used car prices have reduced over the past decade.
Cenex (centre of excellence for low carbon and fuel cell technologies) has launched its new knowledge transfer network (KTN), to help speed up getting new technology introduced to mainstream businesses.
CV questions to high flyers from the automotive industry.
Are you a dreamer? Honda UK managing director and European executive vice president Ken Keir believes everyone should have an idea about the type of life they want to live – he calls it “creating your own dream”.
Solus, the bodyshop group owned by Norwich Union, is understood to be in the final stages of talks to acquire Deejay Accident Repair Centres, one of the UK’s largest independent networks.
Accident Exchange has added 162 dealership referral accounts within the past six months, including major franchised dealers such as HR Owen, RRG Group and Harwoods Group.
Blue Bell group’s bodyshop in Wilmslow has become a certified body repairer for Aston Martin.
Businessman John Hopkins has put his car repair business up for sale on eBay. He decided to sell his ChipsAway franchise in Cornwall due to ill-health.
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