South West-based dealer group Vospers has launched a new blog as part of making sure its online experience is as good as the customer experience in the showroom.
Pentagon Motor Group will be offering customers the ability to check whether they will be approved for finance on its stock after signing up to iVendi’s Car Finance Checker.
Nick Hewer, Alan Sugar’s right-hand man on The Apprentice and host of Countdown, has been confirmed as the guest speaker for the AM100 dinner on June 6.
Almost all drivers (95.5%) cannot match the MPG figures based on laboratory-based government fuel economy tests according to What Car?'s True MPG analysis.
Pressure on late plate used car values is a “shadow hanging over the market” according to Black Book Live – the independent real time guide to used car price trends, published by CAP.
Trader Media Group has appointed Trevor Mather as its new chief executive officer.
A Leeds manufacturing company has designed and built a new alarm system to combat the growing problem of catalytic converter theft.
Skoda has refreshed the styling on its Superb estate and hatch models and the facelifted version will go on sale in the UK at the end of June.
Audi is currently working on the business case to introduce elements of its Audi City showroom into all UK dealerships.
Poll results and comment from AM's poll on Dacia's introduction to the UK market.
Ronnie Black, a part-time sales executive at Blackshaws Nissan in Alnwick, has clocked up 10,000 sales at the dealership n between working as an ambulance driver and paramedic over a 29 year period.
Jardine has signed an exclusive remarketing agreement with BCA.
A new survey by What Car?, researching motorists’ attitudes towards the environmental impact of car ownership in the UK, found that almost 40% of respondents would consider offsetting the emissions of their vehicle, 10% more than would buy a hybrid or electric alternative.
February sales growth of 7.9% completes 12 months of consecutive increases
The British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) believes the UK will avoid a triple dip recession.
A new report from BCA, The Broad View, examines the European economic outlook, new car sales, used supply and the implications for dealers.
Over 5,500 franchised dealers have signed up to help promote the Minute Or Two consumer campaign from The Society of Motor Manufacturers and traders (SMMT) and National Franchised Dealers Association’s (NFDA).
Gerry Keaney has been appointed as the new chief executive of the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA).
Renault is reviving its Nicole and Papa character in an online advertising campaign for its Clio.
Citroen has revealed the first images of its new C4 Picasso which takes heavy influence from the DS-like Technospace concept shown at the Geneva Motor Show in March.
Seat’s new Leon SC will be priced £300 below the five-door at £15,370, model-for-model, when it arrives in showrooms at the start of July.
The directors of vehicle preparation firm Autoclenz have acquired the business in a ‘multi-million pound’ management buyout.
GForces is opening a second office in the UK to support its growth.
Another substantial increase in showroom finance for new retail cars has prompted the Finance & Leasing Association to welcome consumer credit regulatory reform, but with reservations.
But underlying fragility prompts warning of an inevitable readjustment to come
Traditional earners – parts, accessories and tyres – have moved to the online domain and dealers need to be offering these products via their websites in order to win back business which has been lost to the fast fits.
Kia's Soul, appearing in second-generation guise at New York, has the potential to become the Korean brand's equivalent of the Mini, says the man who headed the design team which created it.
Any franchised dealer that has not fully embraced the internet by now must face a difficult future of being steadily left further and further behind.
Anti-pollution group Transport & Environment (T&E) claims the difference between what cars really emit and what they are officially measured as emitting has grown to nearly a quarter.
Hyundai has revealed a rear-wheel drive luxury sports coupe concept at the Seoul Motor Show which hints a future production model.
