Brindley Garages Group, the AM100-listed retailer, has opened a new £3m multi-franchised site in the Midlands in a bid to hit the £100m turnover mark next year.
Yorkshire-based retailer Gilder Group has appointed its first female technician. Anne-Marie Ward (pictured) joins with 11 other apprentices on a three-year training programme.
New Jaguar and Land Rover president Joe Greenwell is telling executives that there will be no let-up in the drive to put higher quality into each new model. But he also stresses that every upgrade will have to be accompanied by lower costs and improved productivity.
The Dick Lovett Group has opened a new Ferrari and Maserati dealership in Swindon.
Businesses that scrap cars will have to issue drivers with a certificate of destruction from next month.
Camden Corporate Fleet Services has launched a fresh drive to increase the volume of used car business with franchised and independent retailers.
A new company has entered into the UK accident repair market. Motor Repair Management, a Surrey-based firm, has 11 shops spread across the UK.
Priory Motor Group is set to open a new £1.5m dealership on its existing Honda site in Cambridge.
Suzuki retailers will get a boost from the new high-performance Ignis Sport. The new 1.5-litre 107bhp engine reaches 62mph in 8.9s going on to 115mph.
Inchcape Retail has acquired Toyota in Aylesbury.
The new Nissan 350Z will retain 52 per cent of its original value after three years and 30,000 miles, according to CAP Monitor.
Pendragon, the UK's largest car dealer, has sold two Mercedes dealerships as part of a nationwide restructure.
Vauxhall's facelifted Corsa (re-styled front bumpers and new-look wheel arches) goes on sale this month with a range of new engines and variants.
Reg Vardy, the UK's second biggest automotive retailer, is planning to open a chain of multi-marque repair shops in major cities following the introduction of new European block exemption regulations.
London Eventco says it is confident it has the industry backing it needs to stage a standalone UK aftermarket show in the first quarter of 2005.
Webcon UK, the Middlesex-based supplier of Weber and Solex carburettors, has completed a management buyout from Standard Motor Products Europe.
Automated telephone systems – installed by many insurers to help streamline the claims handling process and now being adopted by several franchised dealer groups – are causing consumers lengthy and expensive delays, according to accident management firm Accident Exchange.
The option of carmaker branding has been built into ClaimWatch, the internet-based service that enables bodyshops, work providers and customers to track the status of individual vehicle repairs online.
An internet-based service to identify, source and order replacement glass for every car available in the UK since 1945 has been launched with backing from Autoglass.
Automotive logistics specialist Fell, Arthur & Bennett (FAB) has been appointed approved supplier of Gates belts to the Factoring Services Group (FSG).
Repairers could avoid prosecution under tough new health and safety guidelines by using dealer management systems, according to a leading industry figure.
European Motor Holdings plc, the dealer group and importer of the Malaysian Perodua budget car brand, has reported pre-tax profits for the six months to 31 August of £6.7m – up 9% year on year.
Following their acquisition of the Warwick BMW dealership in February 2001, former F1 driver Damon Hill and Nick Whale have acquired a second dealership in partnership.
Sussex Ford main dealer Otters Ford closed down on Friday 10 October with the loss of 65 jobs.
Following the recent repeat of big list price cuts by main rival Ford, Vauxhall is offering savings of up to £3,050 on specified models from noon on Thursday 23 October to 4pm on Monday 27 October.
Nissan Motor Company announced yesterday that it expects to report an 11.3% operating profit margin for the first half of fiscal year 2003 and a 15.2% increase in operating profits.
Ford Rapid Fit, the manufacturer's 320-branch all-makes fast-fit network, has teamed up with Pirelli to offer customers the chance of winning a Ford Ka, simply by buying a Pirelli tyre.
Peugeot has appointed a new product and pricing manager for its light commercial vehicle range, Andrew Montague, as sales across the range continue to strengthen.
The ACEA has reported today that with 1,3653,206 new cars registered in September, the market in Western Europe was up 4.4% year on year, and up 4.5% in the 15 EU markets. There was one more sales day last month than in September a year earlier, but it was revived demand in 10 of Europe's 15 markets, including the five largest ones, that drove the figures up.
Independent garage survey responses to the latest Automotive Parts Distribution Trend Index produced by aftermarket analyst Brian Taylor indicates the proportion of parts they said they bought from franchised dealers was an unexpectedly high 27%.
