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- Car retail's digital transformation starts in the dealership, opinion
- GForces reveals bumper online car sales over festive period
- Agile approach to pave car retail's road to new 'normality', opinion
- Rygor saves £95,000 from switching to LED light bulbs
- Hyundai introduces contactless digital aftersales service
- Cap HPI launches digital vehicle imagery tool
- Stellantis partners with Amazon to create next-gen infotainment
- Carzam CTO Edgardo Savoy joins team at online retailer's new Peterborough HQ
- ‘UK’s quickest car dealer’ responds to customers in a minute
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How can car retailers turn red and amber aftersales work into profit?
Even the traditionally slender margins that car dealerships make on new and used car sales once all the overheads have been factored in, aftersales is key to profitability.
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Car retailers are realising the 'wins' offered by digital aftersales processes
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.
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Habits for a lifetime: which car retail COVID lessons are here to stay?
The coronavirus pandemic accelerated the pace of change in the UK’s motor retail industry and some observers now question whether many of the new habits will stick with consumers when everyday freedoms return.
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No stopping the march of car maker's 'surveillance capitalism'
Motorists have shown uncertainty about the transformation of car makers into tech companies and dealers could be left to explain their franchised partners’ ‘surveillance capitalism’, it has been claimed.
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Student's idea to update drivers of workshop progress wins £10k Keyloop prize
A university student's technology concept that would easily help dealers inform customers of their car's progress through service has won the inaugural Keyloop Dealer Tech university automotive technology competition.
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Target 2030: Arnold Clark CEO Eddie Hawthorne is 'committing to decarbonisation'
Sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans will stop in the UK from 2030, as part of the Government’s “green industrial revolution”.
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Remote onboarding becoming the norm for dealers during COVID-19
The role of digital staff communication tools in motor retailers' recruitment processes
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10 minutes with... Cameron Wade, Silver Bullet managing director
As part of AM's regular '10 minutes with...' automotive retail supplier interview series, Tom Seymour, discussed 2020's rapid shift towards online car retail and what the future might hold with Silver Bullet managing director, Cameron Wade.
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Future retailing: Time for dealers to step up digital services
UK car dealers must step up their digital services or risk being left behind, as the COVID-19 pandemic has led many customers to carry out more research from their sitting rooms before they visit car showrooms to agree the deal.
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Five steps to successful e-commerce
How close is the industry to a fully-functioning online buying process? These keys may help speed it along.
