Research conducted by Dealerweb has revealed that 77% of car buyers would be reluctant to spend over £15,000 on a new car online.
Mitsubishi Motors in the UK will open “12 car retail stores” in high-footfall shopping locations as it pushes towards a new omni-channel car sales strategy in partnership with Rockar.
Rockar MD Martin Sewell will discuss the omni-channel car retail business's “way forward” after landmark partnerships with Next and Ford at AM DigiTech on April 17.
The full line-up of speakers at April’s DigiTech tackling the digital and technological challenges facing automotive retailers, has been confirmed.
Ford will sell cars in the Next store at Manchester’s Arndale shopping Centre after becoming the latest partner of Rockar’s omni-channel car retailing platform.
Rockar won the AM Award for Digital Retailer of the Year.
Cars will be sold alongside clothing and homeware at Next stores after omni-channel vehicle retail specialist Rockar announced its first collaboration with the high street name at the Manchester Arndale shopping centre.
Rockar will use valuation and provenance data from Cap HPI to underpin its online retail platform as it plots growth with franchised retailers in 2018.
Rockar founder Simon Dixon is expecting to “realise the potential” of his innovative automotive retail model in 2018 as the business celebrates its three-year anniversary.
Mitsubishi Motors in the UK has teamed up with Rockar to launch a 'next generation omni-channel car buying experience' in the form of Mitsubishi Buy Online.
Rockar is in the latter stages of launching with another new car franchise and is also close to developing a used car concept, according to its founder Simon Dixon.
Hyundai chief executive Tony Whitehorn is not afraid to try out the latest technologies on the sales side, and now he is taking aim at the workshop.
Most of your customers visit your website and go on to buy cars using finance – make their journey as easy as possible.
Understanding how and why car consumers buy is essential to franchised dealers’ success online, delegates at AM’s latest Digital Dealer conference heard.
Jaguar Land Rover has insisted that Rockar “will still be required to sell cars” from its facility at the Westfield Shopping Centre despite its customer-focussed remit.
Dealers are being offered the chance to share in the success of shopping centre retailer Rockar.
Digital dealer group Rockar has signed up DCML to use its DCM Connected to provide telematics software for its fleet of demonstrator vehicles and support its shop staff ‘angels’.
Jaguar Land Rover has struck-up a partnership with Rockar to create a new retailing experience within Stratford’s Westfield shopping complex.
Simon Dixon will tell the Rockar ‘story’ when he opens this year’s AM Digital Dealer conference which takes place at Whittlebury Hall Hotel, near Silvestone, Northamptonshire on September 6.
DS Automobiles’ sponsorship of the ice rink at London’s Westfield shopping centre has been marked with the unveiling of the new DS 4 and DS 4 Crossback models at the winter attraction.
