Aston Martin has reported a 79% uplift in revenues and a near-halving of its pre-tax losses ahead of the arrival of the world’s most powerful SUV and a new V12 Vantage coupe to its model line-up.
The consumer car finance market grew 2% by volume and 13% by value in December to complete a 2021 “rebound” despite the headwinds of COVID-19 and vehicle supply shortages.
Chorley Group has tripled the scale of its MG Motor UK representation in its home town with the opening of a new standalone showroom for the brand.
A new Kia car dealership corporate identity (CI) is set to be applied to the entire UK retail network by the end of 2024 will break cover in Edinburgh and Bolton within weeks.
Audi, Hyundai, Peugeot and Toyota were among the best new car registrations performers as Kia accelerated its sales to finish the first month of 2022 as the UK's best-selling brand.
2022 is off to a positive start, says the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, which published data showing 115,087 new cars were registered in January, including 62,300 dealership sales to private buyers.
Kia’s new Sportage SUV is tipped to play a “key player” in the Korean car maker’s drive to exceed 100,000 registrations in 2022.
Cox Automotive has published a prediction that new car registrations will increase by 14.1% this year.
Soaring energy costs could lead to increases in the price of new cars with elelctric vehicles (EV) facing a price rise 'double whammy', SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes has warned.
UK car production in 2021 fell 6.7% to only 859,575 units, according to figures released today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), the worst total since 1956.
Honda UK managing director Jean-Marc Streng says the brand is exploring the possibilities of the agency franchised retail model as it draws to the end of “phase one” of its retail network restructure.
Peugeot UK has revealed that its online sales accounted for 15% of its retail car registrations in 2021 – doubling its digital traction year-on-year.
Gravells Bridgend has won the Dealer of the Year Award at the 2021 Kia UK Dealer Excellence Awards.
Renault has celebrated a 52% uplift in its hybrid and electric car sales across Europe in 2021, although its global total vehicle sales fell by 6.7%.
Dealer attitudes suggest a level of uncertainty about a 2022 car retail market increasingly defined by vehicle availability, the transition to electric vehicles (EV) and moves from manufacturers towards an agency franchise model.
Electric vehicle (EV) leasing company, DriveElectric, predicts that at least 330,000 new battery electric vehicles (BEVs) will be registered in the UK in 2022.
MG, Audi, Kia and Polestar featured among 2021’s new car registrations winners as Tesla’s Model 3 ended 2021 as the UK’s second best-selling car with registrations almost three-times that of the next most popular EV.
New car registrations rose just 1% in 2021 as tougher trading arrangements, accelerating technology shifts and decimated supply stalled the sector’s recovery from COVID-19.
Just 0.2% of Suzuki's new car buyers have used the 14-day exchange plan it introduced this year to help them feel confident in their buying decision.
Car retailers across the UK have today been alerted to more “overnight changes” to the plug-in car grant (PiCG) – delivering a further “double whammy” of reductions for electric vehicle (EV) buyers.
