For many years a bugbear of the motor industry is the transactional and infrequent relationship the car dealers has with their customers.
Many will still need time to fully consider the content of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) final ruling from its motor review and the impending ban on discretionary commission models, published earlier this week.
After recent dire results for Mitsubishi - notably a £1.3bn loss for the last quarter - the firm has decided to focus on faster growing, more profitable markets.
Cambria Automobiles chief executive Mark Lavery has urged his car retail colleagues to lobby Government over an all-out push to Electric Vehicles (EV) which risks catching UK automotive “sleeping at the wheel”.
As the motor retail sector emerges nervously from lockdown, dealers are reporting that the shift towards a digitally-led sales model for new and used cars is progressing far more quickly than many might have imagined even just a few months ago.
I did consider picking this topic for my blog last week – the acquisition of Imperial Car Supermarkets in the UK by online used car start-up Cazoo last week.
The time has come for the Government to give a definitive bit of advice, to codify what the Prime Minister could only splutter when he said: “Instead of ‘stay at home if you can’ – I think we should now say, well, ‘go back to work if you can’.”
Professor Jim Saker suggests that some of the changes driven by the pandemic could be turned into a blessing rather than a curse.
A long-term recession is both unlikely and unnecessary if businesses ignore the "hard-line approach of financial directors", according to MotorVise Automotive's Fraser Brown.
Like most retailers, the automotive industry has been heavily impacted by COVID-19.
McDonalds UK has announced far-reaching plans to install rapid electric vehicle (EV) charging points at drive-thru restaurants around the country.
COVID-19 has not defeated us, we are coming back. My wife is a professional epidemiologist, and an entrepreneur, and her rage at how this process was handled is a topic for another day.
Hardly a year goes by without the role of regulation in the economy being reconsidered. Even now, in the midst of a national crisis, the debate continues.
The car retail sector is divided over suggestions by the Bank of England’s chief economist that the UK is already on track for a V-shaped recovery from the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
As Scotland's car dealers re-open their showrooms to sales customers, Jo Causon, the chief executive of The Institute of Customer Service, tells AM that recognition of front-line retail staff is the key to post-lockdown success.
After almost three months of shuttered showrooms, the Government’s easing of lockdown restrictions meant car dealers in England were able to reopen their doors from June 1, Northern Ireland June 8 and Wales just this week.
Could a shortage of cash and heightened consumer caution in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis help to fuel a shift towards car subscription?
A new type of customer has emerged, the super-savvy, super-confident. These are the people buying pure electric vehicles (EV) during a pandemic, giving double digit growth in a market which is otherwise hardly moving.
With COVID-19 bringing a 'Perfect Storm, Part 2' to UK automotive Professor David Bailey wants to see Government support to save the flagship manufacturing sector.
The automotive sector is no stranger to the power of tech and it’s often been behind the leading edge of it.
