Used electric vehicle (EV) values continued to rise as consumers warmed to electrification during October as petrol powered cars faltered and diesel vehicles showed signs of growing demand, according to the Auto Trader Retail Price Index.
Swansway Group is hoping to take on web-savvy used car supermarkets with a newly-launched Motor Match website offering free provenance checks and independent review content to assist consumer car searches.
Franchised car retailers will have to continue to drive the efficiency of their used car sales in order to maintain profitability during 2020, according to epyx.
Small SUVs dominated October’s fastest selling used car rankings as the Audi Q3 led the pack, according to data published by Indicata.
Digital used vehicle buying increases at Aston Barclay in the third quarter of 2019.
New car sales remain in decline but data for Q3 2019 shows the UK's used car sales volumes have risen by almost 20,000 units.
Manheim has launched a new suite of valuation and appraisal products to support dealers with the part-exchange process.
Research conducted among 2,000 motorists has shown that 90% of car buyers are more likely to make a purchase when if presented with accurate vehicle service history documentation, revealed HPI.
Auto Trader has said that the Renault Zoe’s dominance of its fastest selling used car rankings for November demonstrates car buyers’ growing appetite for electric vehicles (EV).
October has been a volatile month politically and economically with warnings around future investment in the UK and the viability of running certain business types amid major UK business failures in the retail sector.
Used vehicle values stabilised in October as a result of low supply and steady demand, according to Cap HPI.
Demand for used cars at auction has gained momentum in quarter three, with hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs) reaching their highest average prices on record.
Competition to supply valuation information is hot and the savvy car retailer can only benefit
At some stage most of us have had someone in our car sales team who has many years of elapsed experience, but who truthfully has one year’s experience, repeated many times.
Cargiant owner Geoff Warren has spoken of plans to transform the business’s London headquarters into a specialist electric vehicle (EV) centre.
‘Physical auctions are not dead,’ says one leading car remarketer, ‘but we have to evolve and this is through digital’
Anton Khan’s philosophy has taken him from selling cars on his parents’ driveway to CEO of the £26m turnover SW Car supermarket in nine years.
Car supermarkets grew their stock of used vehicles by an average of 11% during September in an effort to capture car buyers looking to buy in the key number plate change month, Motors.co.uk has reported.
Pendragon has delivered an interim statement to share news of a 57.9% growth in underlying profit before tax as revenues and profits continued to decline amid mass site closures during Q3.
Half of Auto Trader’s monthly top ten fastest selling cars rankings was made up of diesel powered vehicles as buyers demonstrated a continued appetite for the fuel type.
