Aston Barclay has given car dealers the ability to sell unwanted or duplicate used stock at the push of a button with the launch of its new E-Xchange wholesale online used vehicle remarketing platform.
Car buyers searching for a used electric vehicles (EVs) are being "pushed out" of the market by prices after average values rose by 11% to £23,361 during April, Auto Trader’s Retail Price Index has revealed.
Modix has announced that its managing director Darren Sinclair will take up the appointment of chief customer officer in a senior management reshuffle.
Franchised dealers are failing to sell almost half of the urgent jobs identified during the service process, costing them more than £400m per year according to new data from autoVHC.
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
Facebook is proving to be a “valuable tool for dealers” as a recent study showed 44% of potential buyers discovered new cars through its apps, Dragon2000 revealed.
A “market correction” has wiped £500 to £1,000 off the price of the some used cars during May, according to data published by Cap HPI.
A bank holiday-induced dip in consumer demand has been blamed for a 4.6% decline in the average price of a used car sold at auction during April in BCA’s monthly Pulse Report.
NextGear Capital has appointed Simon Baldwin to its leadership team as operations director.
Aston Barclay is introducing a new employee wellbeing programme inspired by the mindset of special forces operatives and elite military units.
Stoneacre Motor Group has joined forces with AutoConvert in pursuit of an all-encompassing approach to lead management which fuses detailed lead tracking with paperless online finance applications.
Growth in used car finance drove a positive month of sales in April, according to lead management experts Dealerweb.
Nearly half of workshop technicians believe that they will need electric and hybrid technology know-how more than traditional mechanical knowledge in as little as five years, according to CitNOW.
A Manheim charity auction has raised £850 for the Hendy Foundation, following a pledge to donate £5 for every car sold.
Thatcham Research has outlined how automotive repair and insurance companies should manage vehicle repairs involving Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).
Cazoo has announced three new appointments who have joined from AutoTrader, Tesla and Manheim, following a £30m cash injection.
BCA and Jardine teamed up for the biggest single dealer sale ever staged at BCA as 405 vehicles were sold generating sale proceeds of £2.7m.
CitNow has reached a ‘landmark’ million customer videos in March, reflecting the automotive industry’s use of video technology.
City cars and superminis seemed to be falling out of favour as the two segments led the largest April decline in used cars values since 2011, Cap HPI has reported.
