A classic car collector has started High Court proceedings against JD Classics after alleging that the trader invented fictitious buyers and sellers to boost its sales profits.
A £3.4 million Pagani Zonda supercar is at the heart of a legal battle between its tycoon owner and the London-based dealership which sold the car.
Peugeot Citroen Retail UK has been fined £5,000 after Robins and Day’s Gateshead Peugeot failed to declare a used car was previously a Europcar rental vehicle.
A used car dealer who doctored MOT certificate and sales invoice in an attempt to cover his sale of a severely-corroded car as an “excellent all-round” vehicle has been jailed for six months.
Volkswagen compliance executive Oliver Schmidt has been sentenced to seven years in jail after pleading guilty to his part in the dieselgate emissions scandal in the US.
Former Pendragon director James Brearley branded a statement issued by his former employer in relation to legal proceedings against him as “staggering” as a costs settlement was heard in court today.
A Luxury car dealer has been ordered to pay back £2 million to the HMRC or face a further decade behind bars for his VAT fraud offences.
A car salesman, already on bail for theft from one UK franchised dealer group, joined another dealership and pocketed another £16,500 before getting caught.
A salesman at Marsh Wall’s BMW dealership in Chiswick who helped steal cars worth more than £200,000 has been jailed for five years.
A used car dealer who failed to pass on £174,450 of proceeds from five cars sold as part of ‘sale or return’ agreements has been disqualified from acting as a director for ten years.
A used car dealer who left 17 customers out of pocket to the tune of £95,000 has been banned from acting as a company director for seven years.
A former Volkswagen salesman has been handed am 18-month suspended prison sentence after diverting almost £4,000 of customers’ cash into his own bank account.
Used car dealer Richard Burbage has been told to expect to serve a “substantial sentence” in jail after he was found guilty of swindling hundreds of customers of his various businesses.
A dealer has avoided jail after admitting at crown court selling dangerous vehicles, including a Mini Cooper welded together from four different models .
The number of cars on UK roads showing mileage discrepancies has risen by 25% since 2014, HPI has revealed..
A used car dealer has criticised Trading Standards after being fined in a fraud case.
A used car dealer who pocketed £1.1m in tax he should have paid for profits from his business, escaped a potential eight years in jail with 300 hours of unpaid work and a curfew.
A used car dealer is awaiting sentence after he admitted accepting £1,000 to handle a rare Ferrari 550 Berlinetta which had been stolen in a raid on its owner’s home.
A three-year investigation into a car clocking scam which saw more than 7.5 million miles wiped off vehicle odometers has resulted in guilty verdicts against five men.
Nissan has been urged to carry out further safety checks to Qashqai SUVs after a pensioner was cleared of killing a pedestrian when lawyers argued that a malfunction had caused her car to accelerate “uncontrollably”.
