BookMyGarage has highlighted the post-lockdown aftersales opportunity open to car retailers with research which states that one-in-10 vehicles have emerged from lockdown with ‘dangerous defects’.
The longest serving Lotus dealership in the world, Bell & Colvill, has celebrated its 50th year as a franchised retailer with the addition of McLaren Automotive Approved status.
PSA Group is extending its Distrigo multi-brand spare parts distribution service with a secondary network, Distrigo Relay, to offer greater parts support to its UK trade businesses and partners.
The latest webinar from the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) is set to address cash flow challenges that businesses are facing due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
Jardine Motors has opened the doors to its new £1.2 million Ferrari Approved used car sales dealership and supercar service centre in Sevenoaks, Kent.
The PSA-Group owned Robins & Day car retail group has opened three new Distrigo parts hubs within the last four weeks.
RTC Automotive has launched a new software package that enables aftersales customers to check-in digitally for a contactless handover.
MOT centres carried out over two million tests during COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown period as many motorists chose not to take advantage of the Government’s six-month exemption.
Car supermarket Fords of Winsford is the latest business to join the RAC Dealer Network.
Pendragon’s Pinewood Technology has launched a new online payment feature for car retailers’ aftersales departments – enabling customers to pay before collecting their car.
A new COVID-19 aftersales whitepaper has questioned whether franchised car retailers are properly prepared for a June surge in servicing demand – and continued peaks and troughs to follow.
There has been an increase in the number of car owners searching for information on how to tackle issues with car brakes, batteries and tyres.
Arnold Clark chief executive Eddie Hawthorne has admitted that the car retail group’s apprentices will see their training “set back by a year” as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
A new type of customer has emerged, the super-savvy, super-confident. These are the people buying pure electric vehicles (EV) during a pandemic, giving double digit growth in a market which is otherwise hardly moving.
HR Owen service manager Paul King has raised over £3,000 for NHS Charities Together with a 197-miile, 10-hour COVID-19 cycling challenge.
JCT600 has opened the doors to a new £1 million Ferrari supercar service centre in Newcastle ahead of the opening of its new Leeds showroom later this year.
Lexus’s franchised retail network has taken the Japanese premium car brand to the top of a What Car? ranking of the UK’s top car service and maintenance providers.
Almost 1.1 million unroadworthy vehicles are set to return to the roads as lockdown begins to ease, according to new research by Kwik Fit.
Volvo Car UK is pushing to deliver a contactless app-based aftersales payment facility for customers as it continues to digitise its franchised car retail network.
Caffyns has praised its employees' response to the COVID-19 crisis as “outstanding” as it revealed the mitigation measures taken by the business in a trading update published this morning (May 27).
