Minstergate Group has jumped wholeheartedly into the MG Motor UK franchise with the opening of new dealership sites in York, Hessle and Scarborough.
Stellantis-owned Robins & Day has officially closed the doors of its "landmark" Peugeot car dealership in Bristol.
Toyota’s high-performance Yaris GR hot hatch has claimed the UK Car of the Year 2021 title to prevent a hat-trick of successive electric vehicle (EV) award wins.
Volkswagen has set-out its plan to leverage profitability from data as it focuses on a future of autonomous electric vehicles (EV) with its new Accelerate brand strategy.
Inchcape has revealed its plan to create a new Destination Porsche Centre premium car dealership in Bournemouth - substantially expanding the brand's presence in the coastal town.
Stellantis has revealed the details of a restructured leadership structure for its range of former PSA Group and FCA Group car brands.
Volkswagen UK has named Lookers Northallerton as its top-performing UK car dealer during a COVID-hit 2020 trading period.
Porsche GB’s growing franchised car retail network contributed to a February sales result which delivered growth amid a market down 35.5% due to the ongoing COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’ showroom closures.
Motorline was named as Hyundai Motor UK’s retail group of the year as its dealerships claimed retailer of the year and aftersales dealer of the year awards to mark a memorable hat-trick at the Korean car franchise’s annual awards.
Zerolight has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer car manufacturers a way of launching new models with a configurator on the online retail platform.
Volvo Car UK has revealed a new retail strategy that will see 100% of the Swedish brand’s vehicles sold online as its shifts to a wholly electric vehicle (EV) product range by 2030.
Mitsubishi Motors in the UK franchised car retailers are still waiting to be issued with new aftersales contracts a year after the Japanese brand announced its plan to end new car sales in Europe.
Peugeot has set out its intention to continue a “journey upmarket” with the introduction of a new logo, marketing campaign and corporate identity (CI) for its franchised car retail network.
Livery Dole, Tees Valley and Ullswater Road Garage have opened new Subaru UK dealerships as part of a “roots-up” restructure of the brand’s franchised car retail network aims to add 10 new locations in the first half of 2021.
Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) chief executive, Mike Hawes, has suggested that the immediate re-opening car dealerships represents the “fastest way to UK automotive manufacturing recovery”.
Volkswagen's high-performance Tiguan R SUV is now available for order for UK customers, priced from £45,915 RRP OTR.
Aston Martin’s new DBX SUV accounted for more than a quarter of the British carmaker’s 2020 sales as volumes declined by 32% in a COVID-impacted 2020.
Bosses at the newly-formed Stellantis car manufacturing super group are said to be poised to make a decision on the future of Vauxhall’s Astra-producing Ellesmere Port plant.
The Nissan Navara pick-up truck will no longer be offered in the UK and Europe when production of the existing version ceases at the end of the year, reports suggest.
Hyundai has launched the first of three electric vehicles to be launched in the next four years as part of its newly-established Ioniq EV sub-brand – the Ioniq 5.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic resulted in Europe’s lowest January new car registrations total since 1982 – down 26% year-on-year to just 839,600 units.
There will be no u-turn of Mitsubishi Motors in the UK’s decision to transition away from new car sales, despite reports which suggest the Japanese carmaker could review its decision to withdraw from Europe.
Waylands Automotive has joined the Kia Motor UK franchised network with the acquisition of Pendragon's Evans Halshaw car dealership in Reading.
Kia Motors (UK) has launched KiaCharge, a UK-wide integrated public charging service accessible from a single account.
Car retail group bosses from Cambria, JCB Group and Arbury Group were among those hoping that news of showrooms re-openings on April 12 will be the start of a prolonged bounce-back from COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’.
