An inquest was opened this week into the sudden death of Dan Kirby, founder of Trade Price Cars in Wickford, Essex and co-founder of brokerage Octane Finance who died from hanging.
A burglar who raided Holdcroft Motor Group dealerships on two separate occasions has appeared before the judge at Stoke-On-Trent Crown Court.
An Essex car dealer has been fined after admitting selling an unroadworthy Nissan Pathfinder described by magistrates as a 'death trap'.
Sohail Khan, a senior executive at a dealer group, has avoided being banned from driving because of the impact it would have on his ability to get across the north of England to his various dealerships.
An administration assistant who set up a fake client account and embezzled £1.5 million out of her employer, a scrap yard which processed old cars and other metals, is facing a jail sentence.
The theft of £12,350 from the Lloyds Land Rover dealership in Kelso which employed him has landed 54-year-old Gordon Thomson in court.
A young Mercedes-Benz qualified technician resorted to dismantling high value stolen cars for a drug gang after becoming addicted to cocaine.
A workshop owner has been condemned for running an "amateurish, shambolic" vehicle repair garage after an employee was crushed while fixing a Ford Transit.
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.
AM's regular columnist Professor Jim Saker, director of the Centre for Automotive Management at Loughborough University's business school and president of the Institute of the Motor Industry, shares his thoughts about the damage done to companies by HR departments that put corporate damage-limitation ahead of victim welfare.
Law firm Walker Morris has appointed Russell Kelsall as a partner and head of consumer and motor finance in its regulatory team.
A technician who claimed he was driven to resign by sarcastic remarks from bosses after he swallowed petrol while syphoning fuel by mouth has lost his case against West London Motor Group.
A used car dealership in Scotland has rebranded from its original Mini World name to INI World after BMW Group's lawyers claimed its Mini branding had breached its copyright.
A new Compliance Forum, centred around three half-day events, is hoped to help BVRLA members improve their understanding of the ongoing "period of remarkable regulatory realignment" and the future of motor finance.
A naming dispute with another firm has led website and CRM software brand Motorlease to be relaunched as MotorComplete. The business is part of Auto Platforms
