Stoneacre Motor Group has empowered teams across its network to share news and images via social media as part of a strategy that has seen it become one of the AM100’s top performers on social media.
Infiniti Retail Group (IRG) has launched a new ‘Buy Online’ sales facility using GForces’ ecommerce platform, Auto-e.
Carwow has hired “leading figure in digital marketing and media” Charlotte Tice to become its first head of media partnerships
Cazoo has announced that Alex Gersh, formerly chief financial officer of Paddy Power Betfair, has joined as its first CFO.
Peugeot has started accepting online reservations for the new 208 and e-208 EV, prior to the car going on sale in September.
Chorley Group has begun online sales through GForces’ e-commerce platform NetDirector Auto-e.
Tesla’s plan to close many of its physical retail stores as it shifts towards an online sales model will “force the whole industry to accelerate the move to online car sales”, it has been claimed.
Peter Vardy-backed Silver Bullet is targeting “market saturation” across the globe with its end-to-end online car retail platform which allows dealers to interact with car buyers around the clock.
Zoopla founder Alex Chesterman is preparing to launch an online used car buying platform after raising £30 million to drive his new venture, Cazoo.
Car retailers will have to open up to the prospect of collaboration and integration in order to deliver a digital transformation that will benefit car retailers and buyers alike, according to Jardine Motor Group’s Matt Wrigley.
Peugeot UK has launched a range of ‘Black Friday’ new car offers via its Order Online car retail portal – with offers available from today.
BuyaCar.co.uk has hailed the simplicity, fairness and transparency of online retail as the key to its 53% used car sales growth in Q3 2018.
Auto Trader has reported a 7% increase in revenues and a 10% rise in operating profits in its half-year financial results for the six months to September 30.
Dacia has launched its Dacia Buy Online car sales platform with the claim that it has opened 150 million new retail outlets across the UK.
Batchelors Motor Group claims to have become the first Suzuki GB franchisee to launch its own online retail solution for new and used vehicle sales.
The founders of CarWizz have claimed that the new online retail platform will return the control of customer relationships to retailers and reduce ageing new car stock without resorting to a "race to the bottom".
Instant car buying websites are “quoting unrealistically high car valuations online to attract customers” and chipping the price, according to Motorway.co.uk research.
The automotive industry is at a pivotal point as it tries to understand and envision the role of dealerships, digital and the retail model of the future.
Electric sports car brand Polestar has said that it will deliver “a new approach to automotive retail” with the opening of 60 Polestar Space retail spaces by 2020.
Skoda will launch an online retail channel for sales of its new cars in 2019 in a bid to offer wider range of purchasing options to car buyers.
