Snows Motor Group has broken ground on its new £3 million Volvo Car UK dealership in Southampton.
Automotive Management (AM) is all set to celebrate the automotive retail sector’s most successful businesses and star employees at the AM Awards 2020.
The Vehicle Remarketing Association (VRA) has warned of a potential “charging crisis” for remarketing companies as electric vehicles (EV) start to enter the used market in greater volumes.
Peugeot UK has launched a partnership with charge point provider Polar to offer its electric vehicle (EV) and plug-in hybrid customers a free subscription to its Polar Plus network.
Marshall Motors has completed the £6 million refurbishment of its Volvo Cars UK franchise in Grantham.
York Van Centre was named Isuzu UK’s 2019 Dealer of the Year at the Japanese car brand’s recent annual awards ceremony.
Read Motor Group’s Grimsby Hyundai dealership was named Dealer of the Year while Richmond Motor Group won the Dealer Group of the Year award in the Korean carmaker’s annual awards.
Coronavirus has joined 2020’s shift to stringent EU CO2 emissions regulations to threaten UK car dealers’ supply of vehicles and parts, according to Cox Automotive.
Rainworth Škoda has been named as the Volkswagen Group-owned Czech brand’s UK Retailer of the Year 2019 as it claimed first and second place at its annual awards event.
Imperial Cars operations director Neil Smith believes collaboration will help bring new talent into the automotive industry
The UK’s used car market ended 2019 just 0.1% down with 7.9 million sales following two months of growth in the second half of the year, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has reported.
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWCV) has celebrated the achievements of its top performing dealers at its annual awards event.
Ferrari hosted more than 400 students at dealership aftersales facilities across the UK to showcase its apprenticeship opportunities during National Apprenticeship Week.
Pendragon has completed the £16.5 million sales of its Chevrolet dealership in Puente Hills, California, to JBR Automotive six months after agreeing the sale to another car retail group.
Optimum Vehicles’ SsangYong York franchise has backed horse racing fans at Wetherby Racecourse as potential new customers with a new sponsorship deal for the Yorkshire sports venue.
Car dealers achieved their lowest return-on-sales (RoS) figure since 2011 in 2019 after rounding off a “tough” year with a £1,700 loss in its final month, according to ASE.
Glyn Hopkin is kicking off 2020 with a recruitment drive to attract 35 new members of staff in sales and aftersales positions at its car dealership sites across the South East.
Members of the National Franchised Dealers Association’s (NFDA) Drive My Career reached over 350,000 potential automotive industry employees of the future with an ‘Apprentice Takeover’ publicity campaign during National Apprentice Week 2020.
January’s usual flurry of new car discounts appear to have failed to generate the “boost in fortunes” usually delivered by the first month of the new year, according to Rupert Pontin, director of insight at Cazana.
Business owners are being urged to ensure their teams are trained in first aid after a bodyshop boss saved the life of one of his colleagues.
Citroen franchisees have been revealed as Britain’s biggest new car price discounters in research compiled by What Car? magazine.
The National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA) has urged Government to safeguard the plug-in car grant (PCIG) in order to “ensure a consistent and successful transition to electric vehicles” by 2035.
The period since the referendum has been a turbulent one for UK manufacturing and especially the automotive industry.
Pentagon Motor Group has officially opened its new Peugeot UK dealership sites in Barnsley and Lincoln with a visit from the French brand's UK managing director.
Ford of Britain and the PSA Group have conceded that the time has come to influence car buying customers drivetrain choices in a bid to steer them into a new crop of low-emission electrified cars.
Used car dealers are failing to communicate the value of their warranty offer, according to new analysis from AutoProtect.
Group 1 Automotive boss Earl J. Hesterberg has said that the retail group had been able to overcome “serious challenges presented by Brexit uncertainty in the UK” in 2019 thanks to its “powerful US performance”.
Motor industry training and assessment specialist Steer Solutions has welcomed three automotive retail leaders to its expanding team.
The internet has changed the way we act as consumers with digitally delivered convenience becoming a game-changer in how we expect products and services to be supplied.
Cargiant has renewed its exclusive remarketing contract with Aston Barclay to continue a relationship which has delivered £87 million of used car sales in the past five years.
