Peugeot Citroen Retail UK has been fined £5,000 after Robins and Day’s Gateshead Peugeot failed to declare a used car was previously a Europcar rental vehicle.
Fix Auto UK has appointed a dedicated GDPR support team to help franchisees prepare for the implementation of new legislation.
A campaign by the National Franchised Retailers to promote a greater understanding of automotive retail saw the Rt Hon Sir Vince Cable MP step into the showroom at Inchcape Volkswagen in Twickenham.
The AM GDPR conference will educate delegates on EU privacy regulations which have the potential to prevent dealers from calling customers.
Household expenditure on vehicle ownership defied the negative narrative surrounding PCP car finance products with an increase of 47.7% in spending on “hire loan purchase agreements” during 2017.
The Department for Transport has ditched plans to extend the wait on a new car's initial MOT from three to four years due to concerns about road safety, following Government consultation period.
The development of connected and autonomous vehicles in the UK has received Government funding of almost £60 million as part of a new joint venture with automotive businesses.
Finance mis-selling will create ‘perfect storm’ in 2018 according to the boss of fleet management business who has claimed that car dealership sales staff “don’t know how PCP and PCH deals work”.
AM’s GDPR conference will reveal Direct Marketing Association’s top 10 tips for marketing under the new EU regulations.
A used car dealer who doctored MOT certificate and sales invoice in an attempt to cover his sale of a severely-corroded car as an “excellent all-round” vehicle has been jailed for six months.
A self-help Garage Guide to GDPR is being launched to help independents comply with new data regulations.
The NDFA is concerned that dealers may not be ready to comply with new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), when it comes into force on May 25 2018.
Remarketing companies will need to ensure all personal data is removed from a used vehicle prior to its sale.
Breaching the GDPR data protection law coming into force in May could cost UK car dealers up to £17.5m or 4% of global turnover. They need to get ready now.
Cap HPI has appointed Debbie Capell as new data operations director, to speed up the “development of new product”.
Car dealers preparing for the arrival of General Data Protection Regulation will be able to gather valuable insight and guidance on all aspects of compliance at AM’s forthcoming GDPR conference.
Up to three-quarters of the customer data held by car brands will become useless on May 25 2018, according to data cleansing specialist W8 Data.
More than half of marketing specialists do not currently have the skills to succeed in an increasingly data-driven industry, according to a survey of their peers.
Car dealers are being advised to consider 12 important stages now in ensuring their use of customer information complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with a new Information Commissioner’s Office guide.
The average UK SME spent 600 hours of the past 12 months preparing for the arrival of the GDPR in May 2018 – but 2.1 million have yet to act.
Figuring out what is required within your business to meet the GDPR requirements is quite a challenge.
Data-savvy marketers have claimed that they are poised and ready for GDPR but a third fear that their organisation is ill-prepared for the legislation, according to the Data and Marketing Association.
Sub-prime car finance firm Moneybarn is being investigated by the FCA over how it assesses car-buyers for loans.
The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) spells the biggest shake-up in data protection regulation in decades.
AM speaks with dealers and manufacturers to see what steps they have taken to prepare for GDPR.
