Car dealers have almost doubled the number of valuations carried out via smartphone during the past year, according to new market data from Cap HPI.
NextGear Capital has provided £50million in stock funding to hundreds of UK dealers thanks to a partnership with Dealer Auction.
Mitsubishi Motors in the UK has launched the latest phase of its long-standing sponsorship of Channel 4’s Documentaries on 4 television programmes with a series of new adverts.
Close Brothers Motor Finance has issued its top five tips to help car dealers achieve GDPR compliance after identifying a need for a quick and easy guide to the new legislation.
While dealerships aren’t dead yet, their survival could be under threat if the automotive industry fails to adjust to changing customer expectations. Co-founder and executive director of experience design specialist Foolproof, Peter Ballard, explains how dealerships could safeguard their position by seamlessly joining digital and physical experiences.
Mon Motors' Cardiff Audi dealership got a taste of the lead-generating benefits of customer events when it marked the launch of the RS4 with a Welsh food event for more than 50 VIP guests.
Aston Barclay’s SAS training partner company Break-Point has taken the remarketing firm’s marketing efforts to the ‘top of the world’ by planting a branded flag at the North Pole.
Saxon Bridge Automotive has partnered with Buzz2Get enabling customers to gain instant access to vehicle details via their smartphone.
Listers Honda will showcase its latest range of vehicles to 60,000 pertrolheads at this year's Stratford Festival of Motoring.
PSA Group expects to launch a connected aftersales platform across its Peugeot, Citroen and DS Automobiles brands that could boost car retailers’ retention levels “by next year”.
JC Halliday & Sons has officially opened Northern Ireland’s first DS Automobiles dealership, bringing a “taste of Paris” to Eglinton with the new DS Store facility.
Skoda has delivered over 2,000 hours of product demonstrations through its Skoda Live Tour digital showroom offering in its first year.
Stephen James BMW has opened the UK’s first ‘BMW Store’ at Kent’s Bluewater shopping centre - with product geniuses and a robot replacing sales executives.
Mitsubishi Motors in the UK will open “12 car retail stores” in high-footfall shopping locations as it pushes towards a new omni-channel car sales strategy in partnership with Rockar.
Motors.co.uk has updated its lead management tool, The Eye, to assist “extremely busy” car dealers after it emerged that 22% of calls to dealers go unanswered.
G3 has credited a 46% increase in digital bids compared to the last quarter of 2017 to the launch of its mobile inspection and asset management application, AVID.
AM is hosting a free webinar this morning which will help car dealers deliver a positive answer to the question ‘Are you GDPR ready?’ in association with eDynamix.
The Shpock online marketplace has launched its new platform for car dealers with TV advertising campaign and the promise of access to over 700,000 monthly UK users.
Cox Automotive has announced the promotion of Kieran TeeBoon to the post of managing director at Dealer Auction.
Camden Ventures’ chief executive David Hammond has joined Cazana.com as a non-executive chairman.
Auto Trader has opened nominations for its annual Retailer Awards, marking 11 years of celebrating the “very best” in automotive retail.
Franchised car dealers could see their new car sales “largely replaced” by manufacturers’ online retail platforms and mobility schemes, according to KPMG research to be discussed at the AM Digitech conference.
Dealers that make mistakes with their customers information risk losing their business, according to new research by Marketing Delivery.
Rockar MD Martin Sewell will discuss the omni-channel car retail business's “way forward” after landmark partnerships with Next and Ford at AM DigiTech on April 17.
A new data engineer and data scientist have been appointed at online finance specialist iVendi as the business aims to gain greater insight from its online motor retail data.
