Motorpoint has completed almost 2,000 home delivery orders two months since beginning the service, and is set to expand to 15 sites with Glasgow and Stockton showrooms
Businesses need to focus on productivity and skills investment to help the UK power its way out of the global recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, says professor Joe Nellis of Cranfield School of Management.
AM's parent group Bauer Media has launched a new service, Bauer Autoventure, to create marketing campaigns and content for automotive brands.
Halfords reports that its Autocentres car repair chain grew sales by 18.8% in its financial year to April 3, helped by acquisitions and Halfords being deemed an essential retailer during lockdown.
"This is not a recovery and barely a restart," warned SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes today as its data showed 145, 377 new cars were registered in June, the first month out of lockdown for car showrooms in England and Northern Ireland.
Consumers are expecting dealers to give them an even bigger discount on a new car after weeks of paused sales due to the coronavirus lockdown, according to What Car?
Auto Trader's data scientists have noted the largest monthly growth in used car prices since January 2019 during June as motor retailers in England reopened their showrooms.
Mylchreest Motors, which represents Jaguar Land Rover, Subaru, Mitsubishi and Vauxhall on the Isle of Man, has consolidated its operations into one property.
The Financial Conduct Authority is set to demand motor finance firms extend the support available to customers left short of cash due to COVID-19.
Auto Trader's commercial director Ian Plummer has agreed to join the panelists sharing business insights at the AM Motor Retail Review webinar on July 6.
Volvo dealers in the UK will be put in touch with thousands of owners of Volvo cars as old as 14 years in order to replace a seatbelt cable which the safety-conscious carmaker fears could become faulty.
Cambria Automobiles managing director Tim Duckers and BDO’s head of motor retail Steve Le Bas are among the guests joining the new AM Motor Retail Review webinar on July 6
The Government has announced that after August 1 no more extensions will be available for MOT tests of cars, vans and motorcycles.
AM is launching a new Motor Retail Review webinar, which will be broadcast at 2pm on July 6 and available to watch on demand afterwards.
If there’s no second wave of COVID-19 there is plenty of hope for a V-shaped economic recovery, the SMMT Summit was told yesterday.
