GM Daewoo has predicted its sales for this year will be up by a record 60% by the end of May
Land Rover owner Ford has told 8,000 workers at its Solihull plant to come up with a plan to improve productivity within two months or lose their jobs
Kia is making urgent contingency plans to advance shipments of cars to Britain from South Korea after 1,300 UK-bound were lost last Sunday in a collision off Singapore between a car-carrying freighter and a super tanker
Umberto Agnelli, chairman of Fiat, Italy's largest industrial group, died on Thursday night from cancer
Toyota today announced a £50m investment plan for its Burnaston factory, in Derbyshire, where production capacity will be increased from 220,000 to 285,000 cars a year.
Tony Gott, chairman and chief executive of Rolls-Royce,resigned yesterday unexpectedly after more than two years guiding the German owned company
British car dealers should not panic because of recent "flat but stable sales" according to Renault UK's managing director
Roger Putnam, Ford of Britain's chairman, has ruled out a return to building its cars in the UK, three years after the company abandoned its last car-producing operation at Dagenham
The RAC has reissued its brand guidelines to help more than 2,500 dealerships selling vehicles with an RAC inspection or warranty to continue to display the brand correctly and attract even more customers
Fred Maguire, president of the Retail Motor Industry Federation and Lookers' chairman, has officially opened BCA's new Training Academy at Preston
Gilders' Volkwagen outlet in Sheffield has reported a significant improvement in its recommendation levels from service customers in a recent survey
Prestige car retailer Sytner has agreed an exclusive remarketing partnership with BCA covering its 75 UK dealerships
Less than a year after launching the Crossfire coupe, Chrysler is bringing an open-top Crossfire roadster to the UK
Honda has won the award for International Engine of the Year for the fifth consecutive year
An internet pre-order campaign for the Mazda RX-8 has won the New Media Age Effectiveness Award for Retail 2004. The campaign was praised for its innovative use of the internet to sell motorcars
Satellite navigation is now standard in the Vauxhall Signum
Escalating interest rates present a major threat to record UK new car sales according to Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders president Tod Evans
Chancellor Gordon Brown, today, congratulated the UK's automotive industry on its contribution to the UK's economy, but he made no comment of Britain's excessive fuel duties
Trade and industry secretary, Patricia Hewitt, defended MG Rover directors at the Sunday Times Motor Show Live against claims that MG Rover executives are being over rewarded financially
Mazda, whose rapid UK sales growth should push sales of the brand up to nearly 3% of the market in 2007, is recruiting extra dealers
Workers at the Ryton Peugeot-Citroen plant should know by the end of this year what car will replace the successful Peugeot 206, which reaches the end of production in 2008
Vauxhall's focus on high-performance variants across its range will only generate around 5,000 sales a year, says the company's chairman Kevin Wale. But, speaking at the Sunday Times Motor Show Live yesterday, he said believed the brand's image would be boosted by the VXR
Michael Howard, the leader of the Conservative Party, claims there is a war being waged on the motorist
Daewoo has reduced its parts prices by up to 63% with immediate effect. The announcement was made today at The Sunday Times Motor Show Live at the NEC
Citroen, Ford, BMW, VW, Peugeot and DaimlerChrysler have agreed to lift servicing restrictions following a major inquiry into new car warranties by the Office of Fair Trading. However Which? magazine has been forced to apologise after claiming seven carmakers were still offering warranties in breach of EU law
Mercedes-Benz Direct has opened its eighth used car centre in the UK following a strong performance by the network last year. More than 10,000 used cars were sold by from Direct sites in 2003 and the group is hoping the new outlet on the North Circular in Park Royal, London, will continue this success
The latest 'league table' of Britain's biggest retail groups will be unveiled at the AM100 Annual Dinner at the Metropole Hotel on the evening of June 9
Gareth Gaston, a director of Hilton Hotels, is to speak at the annual AM Dealer Conference, on June 9 in the Metropole Hotel, Birmingham. His theme will be 'retaining more customers through e-commerce'
Retailers are missing out on a major revenue stream by not offering so-called “smart” repairs, according to a new survey. Despite using paintless dent removal techniques on their own stock to boost values, 41.5% of dealerships do not offer drivers the service in their aftersales departments, says the report
Manufacturer standards: good or bad for your business? They mean better facilities for customers, but at a hefty cost
