HR Owen has revealed artist’s impression images of its planned 5.4-acre Bentley, Lamborghini and Maserati supercar dealership megacentre at Hatfield, Hetfordshire.
Car manufacturers have responded to Government’s decision to cut its plug-in car grant with a mixture of frustration and tweaked finance offers to maintain their March sales.
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Cambria Automobiles chief executive Mark Lavery, finance director James Mullins and managing director Tim Duckers are exploring the possibility of a management buy-out of the AM100 PLC.
Honda UK has said that it has “no specific plans” to introduce an agency model to its franchised car retail network.
An influx of high-mileage ex-fleet stock pushed the average price of a used van down in February, at auction firm Aston Barclay.
Halfords has agreed to buy South East motoring services provider Universal Tyre and Autocentres for £15m.
Four cars were torched and racist graffiti was daubed over property as a “lovely, genuine” Scottish car dealer became the victim of a racist attack on his retail site.
Macklin Motors has completed the £1.5 million development of a new Motornation used car and van showroom in Lookers’ former Glasgow Volkswagen Van Centre.
Growth in the value of used cars is beginning to stabilise despite signs of an acceleration in demand from consumers as the easing of COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’ draws nearer, according to Auto Trader.
MotoNovo has urged dealers to ‘be prepared’ for car buyers' greater levels of interest in a dealer’s finance commission.
Manchester-based car finance company Zuto has hired 100 new staff members since June 2020 to increase its workforce by 40% during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Epyx have launched a new and renamed version of its 1Link Disposal Network, where dealers can buy ex-fleet and rental stock.
Mitsubishi Motors in the UK is selling its fleet of heritage cars at a no reserve auction that will run from April 1 to April 30.
The new issue of AM is out now with insights into dealers’ learnings from lockdown, and how they can prepare for an electrified vehicle ramp up as we near the 2030 UK Government target.
Sales executives will be replaced in DS Automobiles showrooms by a new single contact for a customer's lifecycle. UK dealerships introduce ‘DS Concierge’ role.
Strike action proposed by COVID-19 hit employees at the DVLA’s Swansea headquarters could be set to impact the car retail sector’s own recovery period, Cox Automotive has warned.
Peugeot has unveiled the new 308 ahead of its arrival in UK dealerships later this year.
The BMW Group is set to take Mini all-electric by the early 2030s with 50% of all its car sales fully electric vehicles (EV) by 2024 as part of a strategy targeting “significant profit growth”.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has accused the UK of making “the wrong move at the wrong time” with a decision to slash the plug-in car grant incentive on an electric vehicle (EV) purchase.
Lookers has said that it expects to deliver a “small profit” and reduced debt in its 2020 annual financial results – defying analysts’ loss predictions.
Car dealers in Scotland have told AM that they are exercising pragmatism rather than excitement over the re-opening of car showrooms in April after COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’.
Garages and workshops should expect a decline in MOT test demand during April and May as a result of the MOT extension last year.
New car orders were down by 5% in the first two weeks of March, when compared to same period last year, as dealers enhanced their digital retailing during lockdown.
HR Owen’s Cheltenham Aston Martin dealership has been named as the brand's Dealer of the Year 2020 as it claimed two top accolades at the British carmaker's annual awards.
Gravells has expanded into England and added a sixth Kia Motors UK dealership to its franchised retail portfolio with the opening of a new showroom in Hereford.
Online search data and car buyer survey data has led What Car? to assert that there “healthy demand building in the market” ahead of April’s re-opening of showrooms across the UK.
More than two-thirds (77%) of information-hungry car buyers feel that manufacturers are not doing enough to educate them on what electric model was most suitable to their needs.
The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) is setting out to tackle diversity in automotive through a year-long project.
Ocean Automotive’s Yeovil Audi dealership emerged as the German premium car brand’s top franchised retailer of 2020 at its annual Q Power awards.
