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Dealers using a sales management tool from Contact Advantage have enjoyed an average 200% increase in lead captures since implementing the system, the company claims.

Kia dealers are making it easier for customers to drive away immediately in a new car thanks to a new free seven-day insurance initiative from ASA Insurance.

Camden Motors’ vision for the future of automotive retail involves massive new car superstores in greenfield area complemented by high street advice centres, wrapped up in an online proposition.

Ontime Automotive, specialist in bespoke vehicle preparation and distribution services for prestige car manufacturers, has won the global distribution contract for the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren.

Used car retailer Network Q has linked up with a scentologist to produce a scent that apparently mimics the smell of a new car.

A dealer from the Isle of Wight has received a two-year suspended prison sentence for defrauding the Inland Revenue.

Nissan’s Almera has just become the best selling imported car in Russia, selling more than 5,600 since the beginning of the year.

Used car experts on the auction floor give you the lowdown on what’s selling and what’s sitting

The first official photographs of the new Octavia Estate have been released.

The latest model/mileage and price information for auctioned used cars.

More than half of drivers believe it would take more than two units of alcohol – the equivalent of a pint of beer – to affect their behaviour behind the wheel.

Aston Martin has pledged that its 18 UK dealers and their customers will not lose out as it pushes for higher sales in the US. Dealers here are quoting 18 months to two years on the DB9 coupe, and high demand is expected for the convertible Volante derivative launched in the UK at the Birmingham motor show.

Uninsured motorists could have their cars seized by police and even destroyed under Government plans.

GM Daewoo product sold well at an auction at BCA Measham this month, recording a 94% conversion rate that achieved 100% of CAP Clean.

Eight months since its launch in January the Mazda3 has experienced a sales boom with over 5,000 units sold year-to-date. Sales increased with the addition of the 1.6-litre 107bhp diesel model and a stylish four-door saloon bodystyle to the Mazda3 range from June.

Women are choosing more powerful, better-equipped and more expensive cars than men, according to a new survey

Daihatsu has maintained its growth plans for 2004 to reach a 10 year high, after adding one new dealer every week throughout the first half of the year.

CarLand, one the UK's largest car supermarket groups, has just announced the completion of a 125,000 sq. ft refurbishment centre in Stockport, Manchester, with the capability of refurbishing up to 250 cars per week for its six major CarLand sites throughout the UK.

New car buyers in Western Europe will be offered many more body styles in the most popular class, the Golf class, as sales of standard hatchbacks continue to decline, according to R.L. Polk Europe.

Tomorrow the Government will take the next step in achieving its promise to freeze fuel duties.

The Office of Fair Trading has today upheld a complaint made by the RMI's National Franchised Dealers Association on behalf of its Peugeot dealer members.

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The European Commission is considering the abolition of the car registration tax and other fees which it believes distort the bloc's single market, a Commission spokesman says.

Glass’s has launched a used valuation section on its website which will include up-to-the-minute consumer values for vehicles bearing the current registration plate through to those up to nine years old.

More than 50% of motorists habitually drive for more than two hours on long motorway journeys without taking a break – and half of those, 25% of all drivers, never stop for a break during motorway journeys lasting four hours or longer

Volkswagen has introduced a new model to the Golf range, slotting in below the GT TDI / GT FSI models. The Golf Sport will be available with 1.6 FSI and 1.9 TDI engines.

Reg Vardy's Leeds Citroen dealership is supplying new cars for a new car club launched in the city

RINGO Starr’s former Mercedes-Benz fetched £8,550 at a special classic and historic automobile sale at BCA

72% of motorists admit their vehicles ‘pong’, according to new research from motor oil and car care product supplier Comma.

The Ford Focus is still proving a runaway success in the fleet market a few months before its replacement arrives in the UK