Auto Trader’s latest marketing campaign has helped the automotive marketplace achieve its best ever January, with 59 million visits to the site.
Vauxhall retailers are now able to include brakes, battery and clutch cover in their Network Q extended warranty packages after teaming up with Allianz Global Assistance UK.
RAC Cars’ pledge to shake up the classified motor marketing sector by providing free advertising to dealers looks set to be cut short by a tie-up with Motors.
Online car buying platform Carwow has launched a video review element to its website after recruiting motoring journalist Mat Watson.
The average UK motor dealer made a loss of just over £13,400 in February, matching the 2015 result.
Northallerton car dealership Simon Bailes Peugeot is celebrating the Tour de Yorkshire by providing a fleet of wooden bikes to help the region promote the event.
Chapelhouse Motor Group has added a fifth Suzuki franchise, in Preston, Lancashire.
Peugeot dealership Booths of Ditton is the latest franchised dealer in the French manufacturer’s network to undergo a Blue Box makeover.
Ridgeway has signed a new agreement with Manheim to continue its relationship as solus remarketing provider.
Fleet maintenance controllers are set to be better equipped to manage service, maintenance and repair (SMR) through an agreement by Fleet Assist and CarWeB.
Sytner Group says it acted promptly and appropriately when it was alerted by a customer that a technician had taken his car on a drive, repeatedly breaking the speed limit.
The maintenance costs of the three most popular car brands in the UK - Ford, Volkswagen and Vauxhall - is considered by car servicing and repairs website WhoCanFixMyCar.com.
The Audi A3 is to receive a minor facelift and a raft of new technology.
The UK’s new car market has set a fresh record, with the 518,707 registrations in March the highest ever achieved in the month under bi-annual plate-change.
Banking giant Lloyds has announced it is closing its two car supermarkets, which operate under the Car Select brand.
Dealers’ weekend activity online is not matched by manufacturers’, writes Professor Jim Saker.
Integrating video into the day-to-day tasks in a dealership can have a massive impact on website traffic, enquiry conversions and sales.
French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen has announced a new global plan which will see at least one car launched per brand per region per year.
Toyota (GB) appointed Mark Roden as sales director.
Marshall Motor Group has sold its Nissan centre in Bury St Edmunds to Hammond Group.
JCT600 has relocated its Lotus dealership from Gelderd Road in Leeds to a new centre in Yeadon.
Vertu Motors has completed a £1 million investment in a large-scale re-modelling of its Ford dealership in Birmingham.
Dealers are being advised to ensure a ‘two-pronged’ approach to selling cars to ensure all age groups are at ease with the process, in both the showrooms and online.
Total has retained its position as Kia’s preferred aftermarket lubricants supplier for another five years.
The new Volvo S90 and V90 will be unveiled to the UK public from this week at two Scandinavian-style pop-up shops in Reading and Glasgow shopping centres.
Mercedes-Benz dealers have opened their order books for the brand’s most luxurious open-top car, the new S-Class Cabriolet.
Technology, the internet and the changing demands of the modern retailer should herald a new sales era for automotive retail.
Mazda UK has achieved the largest single month of sales in the company’s history.
Ridgeway, has revealed plans for a new Jaguar Land Rover showroom in Newbury.
A vote to leave the European Union in the June 23 referendum could damage the UK’s new car market and lead to massive economic uncertainty.
