A fraudulent car dealer has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison after confessing to swindling customers by selling unsafe vehicles that posed serious risks to their lives.
A fraudster held Beacon Garage's courtesy car hostage for almost five months while falsely claiming insurers would pay the estimated £8,000 bill for fully fixing his Land Rover.
Former Nissan global chief executive Carlos Ghosn has filed a lawsuit against the vehicle manufacturer to try to claim £1 billion in compensation and punitative damages.
A car thief who got his girlfriend to drive him to a UK Volkswagen dealership so he could help steal three cars has been given two years jail.
A saleswoman at a car dealership in Yorkshire was caught ripping off the AM100 dealer group JCT600 after she'd asked customers to pay her cash deposits, against company policy.
Multiple used car dealers in Luton have been fined thousands of pounds by Trading Standards after trying to sell vehicles with outstanding recalls.
A former Halfords worker has been found guilty of issuing 26 fraudulent MOT tests by Birmingham Crown Court.
A serial fraudster who claimed his criminal activity was triggered by PTSD resulting from a four-week kidnap ordeal has been sentenced for stealing £15,000 from a used car retailer.
Arnold Clark’s recovery from a Christmas cyber attack has been described as a “mammoth task” after the car retail giant was forced to axe internet access to protect its customer data.
One-in-10 British drivers (10%) have been a victim of fraud when buying a car, research by Close Brothers Motor Finance has shown.
Police have arrested two men after Marshall Motor Group’s Hyundai dealership in Worcester was targeted in two burglaries in the space of 24 hours.
Pendragon has become motor retail's latest victim to hackers, who have reportedly issued a $60 million (£53m) ransom demand to the major AM100 dealer group.
Online fraudsters used headshots of a Hollywood actor and a Financial Times reporter to build a car retail website to scam car buyers out of thousands of pounds.
An MOT tester who issued 31 MOT certificates without testing the cars while working at Halfords Autocentre has received a suspended jail sentence.
AM100 retailer Holdcroft Motor Group is recovering from a cyber attack which reportedly left some of its core systems "damaged beyond repair".
Police are pursuing a pair of teenager joyriders who caused £9,000 of damage when they took a Mercedes-Benz for an illegal joyride around a Sytner dealership forecourt.
Deceiving customers into believing cars it sold were compliant with London's ULEZ restrictions has led to £65,483 in charges for Hilton Car Supermarket in Hayes.
A Yorkshireman who laundered dirty cash through his used car dealership has agreed to forfeit £1.14 million of assets in a case brought by the National Crime Agency.
Two men have been arrested after laptops, iPads and iPhones were stolen in a break-in at a Caffyns Audi dealership.
A car dealer who used vivid CCTV footage to track down and confront an alleged car thief after his vehicle was stolen from the dealership forecourt has slammed police for their inaction.
