A range of smart new digital strategies from different car retailers are driving trade at a tough time.
Buyacar has completed £1.1 million of used car sales and deliveries during the UK’s COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown - with just 42% going to key workers.
Increasing demand for home delivery during the Coronavirus lockdown has led to vans taking a larger share of sales on the BuyaCar platform.
Motor sector suppliers continue to enhance their support services for consumers during the coronavirus crisis, while the reactions of national online retailers have been mixed.
AM looks at the explosion in different online automotive offerings available in the UK and explores how this very crowded marketplace is affecting retailers.
Hills Ford has seen dramatic improvements in the service levels it provides to customers over the past four years at its Malvern site.
Input from Google was taken into consideration when the judges were evaluating one of the most competitive – and important – categories in the AM Awards.
More people are expected to buy a new car this year as consumer confidence returns in light of the December election result and some certainty around Brexit.
Franchised car retailers are offering discounts of up to 40% of a vehicle’s original list price in an efforts to offload their pre-registered 19-plate stock during the September ‘plate change month.
Buyacar has advised car buyers to steer clear of costly options funded by a PCP finance plan – branding the resulting uplift in monthly payments a “rip-off”.
Women are 71% more likely to buy a new car online than men, according to a new study from Buyacar.
Brexit uncertainty has impacted consumer confidence, with almost half of all car buyers delaying the purchase of their next vehicle, according to BuyaCar.co.uk
BuyaCar.co.uk has hailed the simplicity, fairness and transparency of online retail as the key to its 53% used car sales growth in Q3 2018.
Car buyers are being advised to choose pre-registered diesel cars to avoid an increase in the tax that has seen the price of some of the most popular models in the market go up by more than £300.
Buyacar has highlighted car dealers’ “dash to pre-register cars” by identifying the top 18-plate used car bargains for potential customers – just weeks after the March plate-change got underway.
Scrappage schemes introduced by manufacturers to boost new car sales are generally failing to impress most car buyers.
Over a third of Millenials are willing to buy a car online according to the findings of a new Trustpilot survey as growth in online car buying appears to buck the trend of a declining market.
Mondays in the middle of the month are the most popular time to buy a car.
Drivers typically underestimate their own credit-worthiness when it comes to buying a car on finance, meaning they could be missing out on their first choice of vehicle.
Growth in online car sales is more than twice as fast among women than men for the third year running.
