Discounts on new car retail offers have dropped slightly by 1.9% quarter-on-quarter to £1,672 on average in Q4, according to the latest AM data.
Marshall Motor Holdings chief executive Daksh Gupta has called for OEMs to accelerate cuts to their franchised networks as part of efforts to solve the retail sector’s staffing crisis.
A new technology platform has been launched to help dealers drive longer customer relationships and greater lifetime value.
Andrew Dickinson has joined Donnelly Group as its new head of marketing.
When Michael Bell took the chief executive’s chair of the family business, Available Car, in 2019, he could never have anticipated quite the baptism of fire that was coming.
Auto Trader is aiming to drive efficiencies for car dealers with a new stock management system which it claims will remove many of the biggest pain points in vehicle marketing.
LSH Auto has supplied Macclesfield FC with a new kids’ electric car for the club’s ball carriers, to celebrate its first anniversary as official car and van supplier.
The European Independent Automotive Data Publishers Association (ADPA) has launched a new quality label.
Aftersales departments have been kept busy for the best part of a decade by a buoyant new car market with each dealerships’ own customer base keeping workshops full.
2021 AM Awards winners TrustFord and CitNOW are our guests for the 1st AM News Show monthly podcast for the UK motor retail industry, produced by Armchair Marketing
Maserati has showcased the MC20 supercar as part of the launch of Situ Live, a new retail experience at Westfield London.
We Buy Any Car has been fined £200,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office after sending 191 million emails and 3.6 million “nuisance texts”.
Auto Trader is to start including admin fees charged by retailers within a listed vehicle’s total advertising price.
Software-driven transformation is expected to help OEMs in automotive gain 9% higher market share on average than their peers.
Honda has created a giant set of rugby goalposts from its fleet of new cars to celebrate the launch of a new partnership with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and England Rugby.
Arnold Clark, the UK's largest family-owned motor retailer, has begun sponsorship of ITV's BAFTA and NTA-winning TV show This Morning.
Car marketing platform Motors.co.uk is launching an utumn burst of TV advertising, which includes headline sponsorship of comedian Paul O'Grady's Saturday Night Line-Up on ITV.
James Taylor has been appointed Stellantis director for B2B for the UK to provide a coordinated approach for large fleet customers across the group’s brands.
The National Franchised Dealers Association’s (NFDA) Driving Digital event will take place on the same morning as the AM Awards on September 8.
The automotive industry is being urged to engage with World EV Day on September 9 to help highlight the role of electric vehicles in driving climate change.
