Carwow has seen a 113% increase in the proportion of consumers who place a formal enquiry for a used car after initially searching on the platform for a new car.
A nationwide survey by Alphera Financial Services has found that most UK car buyers are not ready to fully finalise their car finance agreements online.
As automotive retailing becomes a more omnichannel experience, it’s important that businesses consider how their methods of communication address the needs and expectations of individual customers.
As car dealerships across the UK deck out their showrooms with bunting in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, it is also time to look back at the AM Awards festivities of three weeks ago.
In this Automotive Management guest opinion post Potentuel co-founder Matt Thompson explains why car retail staff will enter the 'trust economy' as part of automotive's rapid evolution.
Car retailers eager to ensure their forecourts are stocked with the best used cars in a market currently starved of vehicle supply are being urged to sign-up to today’s free AM webinar.
ZeroLight's recently-recruited chief growth officer Eva Poppe believes real-time CGI technology will help 'gamify' motorists digital buying journeys against a backdrop of omnichannel retail journeys and agency model retail.
Used car retailers have experienced a May sector “down on hopes and expectations” with average values down by 0.7% as a result, Cap HPI has reported.
CitNOW Group is expanding its international portfolio with the acquisition of multi-channel messaging software platform, Web1on1.
Auto Trader has revealed revenues up by 65% and pre-tax profit growth of 91% in a set of 2021/2022 annual financial results published this morning.
Carwow has continued its recent leadership recruitment drive with the appointment of Cupra and Seat UK commercial marketing manager Alistair White as its new head of sales.
Vauxhall is “at the vanguard of automotive retail” after one-in-five of its March new car sales resulted from customer orders placed online.
One-in-five new and used car buyers are putting off their next purchase as they feel the pinch of the cost of living crisis, eBay Motors Group research suggests.
iTrackLeads is urging dealers to respond to leads as quickly as possible, after its research found that every 10-minute delay creates a 30% drop in conversion.
Keyloop has launched an innovation division out of its Canadian offices in Winnipeg, headed up by chief innovation officer Glen Demetrioff.
Select Car Leasing has agreed a partnership with sustainable energy solutions provider Egg to become an official partner for EV charging point subscriptions.
Candid online used car and van descriptions that highlight scratches, dents and other minor damage are a key lesson from digital disruptors for dealers, says iVendi.
Wholesale used car prices have declined for a fourth successive month at BCA remarketing centres across the UK as chief operating officer Stuart Pearson asserts “we have seen the market soften”.
Auto Trader has struck-up a new partnership with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which will see the used car marketplaces data become an official economic barometer for the authority.
The addition to AM’s ‘5 minutes with…’ features series sees editor Tim Rose sit down with Association of Fleet Professionals (AFP) chair Paul Hollick to discuss its new dealer standard and what it might mean for car retailers.
A driver for LKQ Euro Car Parts, who saved a couple from a submerged vehicle, has been named as the winner of Trakm8’s Road Safety Hero Award.
An “exciting and ambitious phase of growth” at carwow has prompted the online car retail marketplace to strengthen its leadership team with a series of senior promotions and appointments.
An Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) report aiming to be the catalyst of a shift to greater diversity, inclusion and equity in automotive has revealed that gender remains the source of the sector’s most significant representation imbalance.
The car retail sector should be braced for a prolonged period of uncertainty as OEMs impacted by Russia’s war in Ukraine battle to deliver vehicle supplies and consumers “grapple with a cost-of-living crisis”.
Used car marketing provider eBay Motors Group has said that a downward pricing adjustment was “inevitable” in the sector after seeing values decline by 1.5% month-on-month in April.
