Calls for “unashamed and informed conversations” to cut the stigma of mental illness have followed the tragic suicide of automotive industry executive James Davis.
A used car dealership’s sales manager claimed he stole up to £30,000 from his employer to “make ends meet” after his family expanded with the arrival of quadruplets.
A car dealership employee has been banned from driving after being caught speeding through a Yorkshire village at 86mph in a new Ford Puma owned by his employer.
A used car dealer faced threats from the driver during an accompanied test drive before an accomplice dragged him out of the car.
A sales manager from Grimsby who made sexual comments to a female junior and exposed himself has been jailed after trying to defend a culture of banter.
A car thief has been jailed after colliding a BMW into a motorcyclist then threatening to “shank” a car salesman as he stole a Range Rover during two test drive incidents in the space of an hour.
A former Stoneacre Motor Group car salesman whose racist social media rant about Home Secretary Priti Patel went viral has been jailed for 10 weeks.
The competency of PwC’s audits of classic and racing car dealer JD Classics may be questioned in the High Court as administrators from Alvarez & Marsal sue the accountancy firm for failing to spot fraud.
A vandal who slashed 100 tyres on a used car dealer’s forecourt has received a suspended jail sentence after admitting to the planned “revenge attack”.
BMW and the Volkswagen Group have been fined €875.2 million (£752.2m) by the European Commission after forming a cartel with Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler to limit the potential of emissions reducing technology.
Stellantis has joined Renault with a summons to court in France to answer allegations over allegations of consumer fraud in connection with the sale of Euro 5 diesel vehicles.
A used car salesman has been ordered to complete 250 hours of unpaid work after claiming ‘ill health’ had prevented him from keeping company records - when he had deliberately disposed of them.
A Doncaster car dealer who sold mis-sold a previously written-off Vauxhall Corsa and misrepresented 33 more cars has been handed and 18-month suspended prison sentence.
A Hartwell Group service advisor who was excluded from “Pizza Friday” staff meals and later made redundant due to her childcare commitments has been awarded £23,079 in a sexual discrimination tribunal.
A car retailer has avoided jail after admitting a £23,000 fraud to meet debts built-up as the result of a “significant midlife crisis”.
The Austrian Supreme Cartel Court has banned Peugeot from tying dealers payments to customer satisfaction surveys and from subsidising vehicle prices sold at its manufacturer-owned sales outlets.
A fraudulent car dealer who clocked-up £190,000 in sales has been issued with a suspended prison sentence and an order to repay over £33,000 in proceeds of crime.
A car sales executive has been spared jail after he admitted diverting more than £11,000 of dealership sales proceeds into his personal bank account.
Thousands of business interruption (BI) insurance policy pay-outs contested by insurers who claimed that they did not include COVID-19 cover will be paid out following a ruling in the Supreme Court.
A fast-thinking TrustFord employee chased and apprehended a car thief who pushed aside a sales executive before speeding from the AM100 retail group’s Castleford forecourt in an £8,000 Audi A1.
