Oxfordshire based dealer group Hartwell has acquired Hangreen Limited.
Strong candidates for motor industry positions are increasingly being deterred from joining some dealerships by the poor interview techniques, it has been claimed.
Luscombe Suzuki Leeds celebrated its awards successes in 2012 by buying each of its customers since 2010 a lottery ticket.
Marshall Motor Group, the top 10 AM100 dealer group, has announced two more senior promotions.
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Used car supermarket AvailableCar has taken over the former Motorhouse2000 site on the A5 in Cannock, Staffordshire.
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Norwich-based dealer Dingles Isuzu is set to deliver a fleet of D-Max pick-ups to East Anglia-based housing association Flagship Housing Group.
Dealers have opened their order books for the revised Vauxhall Insignia.
BEN, the automotive industry charity, has won £13,000-worth of free public relations support through Automotive PR's #tweetcharity competition.
A major survey of UK customers has concluded that using car rental can help people own fewer cars and adopt more sustainable travel habits.
Lexus’s European brand director Paul Van Der Burgh says the brand is determined to connect with a wider audience and break through the awareness gap.
Dealers are seeing more consumers asking for emissions information as part of the used car buying process, according to a new survey by HPI.
HR Owen’s Jack Barclay dealership in Berkeley is holding a special Bugatti event displaying the two fastest production cars in the world for a select audience of customers.
Independent repairer, Caroline’s Cars, in Norwich is celebrating 10 years in business with a focus on creating a female friendly service environment and the business is now looking to franchise the idea across the UK.
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TVR has been sold by Russian owner Nikolai Smolenski to British-based company TVR Automotive for an undisclosed sum.
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Vauxhall dealers in the UK will be hosting The Big Event from June 14 to June 17 with sales offers and £500 towards the cost of fuel for new car and van customers.
BCA has promoted D'Vidis Jacobs to the newly created role of group corporate development director reporting to Jon Olsen, CEO.
Chevrolet’s redesigned Camaro will be priced from £35,320 in the UK when it goes on sale in November.
The AM100 largest automotive retailers in the UK have posted record breaking figures with the highest revenue performance in 20 years valuing the select group at £40.6 billion.
Leaders from the automotive retail industry have given their views on the biggest factors facing their business this year and Nick Hewer from The Apprentice also gave a special message to one dealer group.
Skoda is reinventing its dealer Fit For Fleet programme, which was set up two years ago to drive fleet sector sales and was based on 30 dealerships singled out for their expertise in handling corporate business.
As the fleet share of the UK market has declined this year (down from 48.6% in the first quarter of 2012 to 46.7% in quarter one of 2013), it is worth looking at who is most dependant on fleet sales.
RAC BuySure has announced its 1,000th used car sale just seven weeks after the initiative officially launched.
Ford’s 1.0 litre EcoBoost engine has been named International Engine of the Year for the second year in a row.
New figures released by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show the strongest growth for more than two years in the number of used cars bought by consumers on finance at dealerships.
Mercedes-Benz has become the latest manufacturer to offer rival products through its leasing arm in an effort to achieve growth.
