Vauxhall dealers in the UK are now taking online service bookings with customers able to book in with 48 hours' notice.
Nissan has lowered the price of its Micra across the range supermini down from £9,750 to £7,995.
Optimism among UK businesses has fallen to a level which suggests there will not be economic growth in the UK at the start of 2013.
Average used car values increased by 2.5% by £157 in September to £6,315 in over August’s figure, according to BCA’s latest Pulse Report.
In this guest blog, Chris Ford - business development director at loyalty services company Grass Roots, talks about how dealers should replicate the new car experience for used car customers in order to have a successful used car operation.
Hyundai has honoured its top apprentices from its UK apprentice programme at the company’s sixth annual awards.
Toyota has recalled 138,000 RAV4, Yaris and Auris models in the UK due to an electric window fault.
Ex-Inchcape chief Spencer Lock has been named as BCA’s new managing director.
Honda has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with organisations from the Nordic Countries, to support the market introduction of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and a hydrogen refuelling infrastructure between 2014 and 2017.
Volvo dealers have opened the order books for the brand's V40 range topping R-Design which is priced from £22,295.
Leyton Cooper, divisional group buying manager at Chester-based ACF Car Finance, died "suddenly and unexpectedly" at the age of 35 on September 20.
Hendy Group, which has 20 sites across the south of England, has invested in upgrading its Ford Ford and Kia showroom in Portsmouth and its Mazda, Ford and Honda facilities in Winchester.
SsangYong's Korando Sports pick-up will be priced between £15,291 and £17,750 (excluding VAT) when it goes on sale this month.
Automotive website developer Razsor has entered into a strategic agreement with Google to become a "'premier SME partner" of its AdWords advertising programme in the UK.
CAP's Black Book Live service is now showing live prices for vehicles as soon as they are identified.
Engine technology is constantly evolving. Cars are going further on less fuel, engines are lasting longer, warranties are covering vehicles for longer periods of time and customer expectations continue to increase.
Dealers are missing out on an average of £330,000 a year or £1.5 billion in total servicing and parts sales by missing condition checks on vehicles that come through the business.
Kia has revised its Sorento SUV which is available to order now ahead of its on sale date in December.
Honda is recalling 50,000 CR-V models built at its Swindon plant due to an electric window fault on the driver's door.
Three dealers from the UK have won global awards from Nissan in recognition of their success with sales and customer service.
AM is launching its search for the best dealer principal or general manager in the UK with a new category for its 2013 awards.
It was Albert Einstein who famously said that information is not knowledge. What he didn’t say, but what he meant, was that it’s about how that information is interpreted and subsequently used.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders believes 50% of the market in the UK could be served by an electric vehicle and the Government believes there could be an uptake of up to 10% of the market by 2020.
Marshall Motor Group continues on its acquisition trail, but of equal importance to chief executive Daksh Gupta are the controls and processes in place at the group to meet the challenges and maximise the opportunities, including the development of the company’s rapidly increasing staff.
Fiat chief executive Sergio Marchionne is ready to buy General Motors' European subsidiary Opel if GM's alliance with France's Peugeot dissolves.
Stoneacre Motor Group has launched its new website to help fit the customer's journey to buy a car which it believes starts online in 90% of cases.
There can’t be many people left who expect their car to match the official combined cycle fuel test, although a few harassed sales people may have horror stories of customers believing in them, along with fairies at the bottom of the garden.
New research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology has called into question how efficient it is to produce electric vehicles (EV) around the world.
Operating in one of the most challenging retail environments makes marketing key to a successful used car operation and at this year’s AM Used Car Market Conference, experts will explores ways in which dealers can gain a competitive edge.
Deltapoint, the UK automotive data analytics company, has launched a used car stock management tool called i-Control.