Hyundai has chosen HPI, the independent vehicle information provider, to support the manufacturer’s approved used car programme.
Two delegates at the AM Autumn Conference will be able to win a day of golf at the DeVere Belfry thanks to dealer management specialists Pinewood.
The large prestige-brand car sector is falling out of favour with new and used car buyers, resulting in a decline in registrations and high rates of depreciation.
Deaths on the UK roads are expected to rise again now the clocks have gone back.
Volvo is to offer new technology to help avoid the risk of accidents caused by blind spots with its BLIS (blind spot information system).
Euro NCAP has released its latest set of safety results for the Daihatsu Sirion, Fiat Croma and Toyota Yaris.
Mitsubishi and Smart have signed an agreement to share engine technology.
Drivers are not familiar with the latest safety technologies fitted to new cars.
Vauxhall has introduced a new engine to its new Zafira line-up.
This Clio retains the classless character of the previous two generations, despite styling changes in 2001 to bring it more into line with the rest of the Renault range.
The used car retail market continues to perform generally in line with last year.
The drip, drip of news about the new Mini MkII has become a torrent, with BMW unveiling the concept at Frankfurt – a barely disguised Mini Traveller.
Nissan Motor Company's profit for the July-September quarter climbed eight per cent as strong sales around the world offset rising raw material costs and discount incentives to sell cars in North America.
Chrysler is looking to sell around 32,000 vehicles in the UK by the end of 2007, split evenly across the group’s three brands, which includes Jeep and Dodge.
Today Honda (UK) has offered Prince Charles a Civic Hybrid to help his newly-announced fight against global warming.
Subaru has launched a campaign to win business in the police car market targeting both unmarked and high-visibility liveried use.
PSA Peugeot Citroen has lowered its 2005 profit estimate blaming production cuts to the end of the year to reduce dealer inventories and a €49.5m (£33.7m) fine by the European Union.
In the first half of the financial year Honda Motor Company has achieved a fifth consecutive all-time sales record.
Activity in the used car wholesale market has been typified by a shortage of stock during the third quarter of 2005, figures from BCA reveal.
Ford of Britain chairman Roger Putnam has been appointed as a non executive director of European Motor Holdings plc. He takes the place of David Beck who has resigned due to 'unforeseen personal reasons'.
Peugeot has a revised 206 model range. Re-named Urban, Verve, Sport and GTi it replaces the Independence, Zest, S and SE models.
The UK company EPM Technology, which supplies advanced composite body parts to Formula One teams and car manufacturers, has announced plans to establish a production facility on part of the former MG-Rover site at Longbridge in the West Midlands.
Road tolls of up to £1.30 a mile will be collected via satellite navigation systems under Government plans to introduce nationwide congestion charging using existing technology.
Work has finished on a £1.4m re-development of Patterson Motor Group’s Shiremoor dealership.
Chinese carmaker Shanghai Automotive Corp. (SAIC) has not ruled out legal action to stop rival Nanjing Automobile from making two MG Rover models on which SAIC owns the intellectual property rights.
Automotive data provider EurotaxGlass’s has issued cease and desist notices during October to a number of customers and distributors of AuDaCon AG, an automotive information provider based in Weikersheim, Germany.
General Motors has announced it has been subpoenaed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a probe into its accounting practices and other matters.
Owners of one in five of the last MG Rover’s built in the UK have suffered from manufacturing faults, according to Warranty Direct, which offers warranties to replace the defunct manufacturer’s voided ones.
Are factors really better placed to get parts to market than a dealer operation? There are about 2,400 motor factors in the UK and nearly 6,000 franchised dealer outlets.
AM and HPI are launching a quarterly business confidence index to provide dealers with a measurement on how the industry is performing in a number of key areas.
