A new two-day Greener Motoring Exhibition has started today at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham.
Audi’s revised A4 Cabriolet range will be available to order later this month.
Pendragon plc is continuing its aggressive growth strategy with the purchase of a large chunk of Priory Motor Group’s business.
These are the two cars to kick off Dodge’s UK invasion: a C-segment hatchback, and a mid-sized SUV pitched at the Freelander.
Franchises held by European Motor Holdings are outperforming the total market, says chief executive Richard Palmer in a bullish comment on the group’s half-year results.
The UK is precariously balanced – one wrong move by the Government or the Bank of England and the country will be in recession.
Visteon, the global car parts maker, has started a restructuring programme at its plant in Northern Ireland, offering at least £30,000 to staff who take voluntary redundancy.
Just a few spaces are left for retailers and their finance directors wishing to attend AM’s Financial control in motor retail conference at The Quadrangle, Oxford, on 17 November.
Jaguar is in a fight with insurers over who is best suited to repair its damaged vehicles.
Audatex UK has invested £5m in developing an AudaNet platform with the aim of providing a central hub for all its package of software solutions used by bodyshops and insurers.
Courtesy car provider Circle Leasing is offering its bodyshop clients a simple tool which will help determine minor damage at the end of their contracts.
Allianz Cornhill is planning to reduce the number of bodyshops in its national approved repairer network.
The list price of the average new car rose by 1.4%, year-on-year, to the end of last month, equivalent to a rise worth £182.
Kia has added a new SE+ trim to its Picanto range.
Hyundai will appoint Tony Whitehorn as its new UK managing director on November 21.
Lexus’s new IS 250 will have the world’s first dual chamber passenger airbag.
Volvo’s new C70 will be priced from £26,200 to £33,225 when it goes on sale in February.
Redditch based Johnsons Cars has acquired two Volvo dealerships from Asgard in Stourbridge and Solihull for an undisclosed sum.
Snetterton Race Circuit in Norfolk will become home to a cluster of prestigious new car dealerships within the next five years.
Kia Motors (UK) hopes in 2006 to add Lookers to the list of leading groups representing the brand, but initial talks have so far failed to reach agreement on locations.
A former Lotus manager is starting a two-year jail term having been convicted of committing more than £80,000 of fraud.
Peugeot has launched a dedicated business sales centre to strengthen its dealer network fleet sales support.
Norwich Union has taken the first steps towards a national roll-out of its ‘pay as you drive’ (PAYD) scheme.
The UK’s largest wholesale distributor of tyres is having a frantic end to a busy year.
Motor parts wholesaling chain Maccess has cleared up confusion caused by an ICC Credit statement that the £61m turnover business is in administration.
Uninsured drivers will have their cars seized and destroyed as from today.
Ford and Fiat have signed an agreement to cooperate on the joint development and production of vehicles in the European small car (sub-B) segment.
The Office of Fair Trading is being asked to look into whether actions by carmakers to stop grey imports into the UK are restriction of trade.
Motor dealers have long been the outcasts of the stock exchange. Up to a few years ago there were plenty of cheap shares about, or ‘value investments’ as they call companies with low valuations in comparison to their size.
The collapse of Capital Chrysler has led to ChryslerJeep UK rethinking its representation in London and an announcement is likely by the end of the year.
