More car manufacturers are looking to performance brands to add something extra. <b>David Ross</b> reports
Mr T – of TV’s BA Baracus fame – now appears to work in Hyundai’s ad agency. “I ain’t no fool,” rumbles the new Coupe campaign, suggesting that smart buyers look beyond the badge to find a cut-price gem. There’s a thin line between being brave and foolhardy.
TRW Automotive is offering monthly one-day training courses for users of its internet-based Id diagnostic programme. They will be held at its European diagnostic centre in Monkspath, West Midlands, at a cost of £70 per person.
American vehicle components manufacturer ArvinMeritor, which has UK locations in Lancashire and Wales, may consider selling its passenger car aftermarket parts business to help global expansion in other areas.
BMW GB is to pilot a web-based apprentice training scheme with around 20 of its dealerships.
Motor sector training firm Acorn Management Associates has revealed a web-based package to allow aftermarket businesses to monitor their customer service more cost-effectively.
Ask an accountant for a sure-fire way of increasing service profits and the advice will be that every pound cut from costs and expenses is another pound in profit.
Nationwide Autocentres is investing more than £500,000 in technology and training to support an increasing level of fleet and retail repair business passing through the group’s centres.
Wrexham-based Demon Tweeks Direct, which supplies motorsport and performance tuning parts to global markets, has been the subject of a management buyout by its chief executive Jon Minshaw.
The Automotive Distribution Federation has had to order a massive reprint of a leaflet detailing its interpretation of the block exemption regulation revisions.
