Luscombe Motors has made its first acquisition since launching the business in 2010 following the purchase of Robert Bowett Motoring in Leeds for an undisclosed sum.
Beadles Motor Group has added Vauxhall to its brand portfolio and will open a new dealership in Maidstone on July 13.
East Anglia-based Vauxhall specialist Thurlow Nunn has opened a new customer contact centre in Norwich to provide a single point of contact across the business.
The average distance that motorists drive between oil changes has fallen to 10,066 miles, representing a year-on-year fall of 5.5%, according to new data released by Castrol Professional.
Trade Parts Specialists (TPS), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen Group, has relocated one of its Great Manchester sites in order to cope with customer demand.
Glyn Hopkin has taken on the Infiniti franchise and will launch a new showroom in St Albans, Hertfordshire in December this year.
Cambria Automobiles has issued a brief interim management statement to the London Stock Exchange.
Property consultants Rapleys expect the current rate of dealership acquisitions to continue despite the move to a general block exemption.
Car drivers of the future will hand over more and more control to autonomous systems as a result of population migrations to large cities and the impact this will have on driving patterns, according to former Ford chief technical officer Richard Parry-Jones, who now co-chairs the UK Automotive Council.
The majority of lenders are expecting growth in the new car finance market this year, according to the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA).
The average UK car dealer made a profit of £6,600 in the traditionally loss making month of April to continue the rise in rolling 12 month profitability.
John Clark Motor Group has acquired four dealerships in Scotland from Pendragon representing the Land Rover and Jaguar franchises for an undisclosed sum.
Audi City, the virtual showroom concept in London run by the German manufacturer and Synter, has won the Store Technology Award in the BT Retail Week Technology Awards.
Swansway Group has posted a profit before tax performance of £3.3 million from a turnover of £289.5m in 2012 in comparison to a profit of £2.2m and a turnover of £257.8m in 2011.
Park assist features can now be found on a variety of vehicle manufacturer model ranges but Volvo is now demonstrating totally autonomous parking technology.
A former executive of Inchcape and Daihatsu has joined the board of Eco City Vehicles.
Renault chief operating officer Carlos Tavares has told AM the business in the UK needs to sell 75,000 units a year to be sustainable and wants to reduce the amount of discounting on the model range.
The Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMI) has welcomed the news that the Driving Standards Agency and the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) are to merge into a single agency which will bring together their testing and standards services.
Dealers are already aware of the importance of having good photography to advertise vehicle stock online but research from Motors.co.uk shows that pictures can double the click through rate on an individual listing.
The UK automotive industry has called on the Government to provide it long-term strategic - and financial - support ahead of the next spending round.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has published new figures showing that UK car manufacturing fell 8.4% in May compared to the same month a year ago (down from 141,146 to 129,355).
Warranty Direct is appealing for motorists’ help in compiling the most comprehensive study of UK used car ownership ever conducted.
Guy Allman, BTC chief executive, shared his views on how dealers could be missing out on on finance penetration with used cars.
Vauxhall's Adam city car is now compatible with Apple's iPhone Siri voice command system.
The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee has called on government to do more to tackle female under-representation in certain sectors of the economy.
Robert Forrester, Vertu Motors chief executive, has been named as the winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award at this year’s North East Accountancy Awards.
Clean small engine cars are still continuing to command strong prices in excess of 104 per cent of CAP values, particularly the Hyundai i10 and Peugeot 107, in the market for de-fleeted vehicles.
A new record has been achieved in the turnover of the franchised dealer groups in the UK. Based on 2012 financial returns the total turnover for the AM100 has reached £40.6 billion, exceeding the all time high since our records began in 1993, of £38.6bn achieved in 2008.
JCT600’s acquisition of Gilder Group in March is under routine investigation from the Office of Fair Trading over competition concerns.
European new car registrations fell by 5.8% to 1,088,195 units in May but the decline in the market is slowing, according to the latest figures from JATO Dynamics.
