The automotive sector benevolent charity Ben will aim to raise cash with a new Move4Ben campaign in June, challenging participants to get fit and raise vital funds at the same time.
The Ben automotive benevolent charity’s Ben Ball will return for 2021, bringing relief to fund-raisers who faced a £1 million shortfall after last year’s COVID-enforced cancellation.
More than two-thirds (71%) of car showroom visitors feel they are safer than the supermarkets that were allowed to remain open throughout the UK’s lockdown periods, a What Car? survey has found.
The Volkswagen Group’s newest electric models, the VW ID.4 and Skoda Enyaq, have both been awarded a five-star safety rating by Euro NCAP.
Car retailers in England and Wales celebrating the reopening of car showrooms after COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’ are now eager to leverage pent-up demand, with some expecting a “bumper Q2”.
The National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA) and Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) have teamed-up to publish assets and advice to help car retailers re-open safely after COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’.
GP Motor Works has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £10,000 in costs after an employee suffered life changing injuries when he fell into a vehicle inspection pit.
Scottish car retailers have been told that they can resume unaccompanied test drive provision to boost their retail recovery from April 5.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has updated its advice on talking with workers about preventing coronavirus.
The UK Government’s counter-intuitive policy of reducing EV purchase incentives while urging their widespread adoption has car buyers “thinking again”, says Stellantis boss Alison Jones.
Government has announced £30m of investment in EV and hydrogen technology to help launch studies into the creation of a UK lithium supply chain, improvements in battery safety and the re-use of car batteries.
Marshall Motor Holdings has signed up as the first platinum member of the [M]enable automotive mental health movemement, and Marshall's chief executive Daksh Gupta has agreed to become its patron.
The Austrian Supreme Cartel Court has banned Peugeot from tying dealers payments to customer satisfaction surveys and from subsidising vehicle prices sold at its manufacturer-owned sales outlets.
The phased easing of COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’ could deliver a staggered recovery for car retail or a double whammy of opportunity for dealerships across the UK, it has been suggested.
Dicksons of Inverness boss Fraser Bryce has said that he was ‘delighted’ with assistance offered by the NHS as the car retail group worked to tackle clusters of COVID-19 coronavirus at two of its dealerships.
MotoNovo has urged dealers to ‘be prepared’ for car buyers' greater levels of interest in a dealer’s finance commission.
The new issue of AM is out now with insights into dealers’ learnings from lockdown, and how they can prepare for an electrified vehicle ramp up as we near the 2030 UK Government target.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has accused the UK of making “the wrong move at the wrong time” with a decision to slash the plug-in car grant incentive on an electric vehicle (EV) purchase.
Car manufacturers and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) have been accused of “scaremongering” in their efforts to lobby the UK Government over its 2030 ban on diesel and petrol cars.
Park’s Motor Group has confirmed that it closed the doors to one of its Nissan dealerships after a number of employees tested positive for COVID-19 coronavirus.
The UK Government is set to start the process this year of determining its minimum zero emission distance for hybrid cars on sale after 2030, in its delivery plan.
LSH Auto boss Martyn Webb says car dealer COVID tests play an important role in the sector’s fight against the pandemic, as showrooms prepare to open next month.
A fraudulent car dealer who clocked-up £190,000 in sales has been issued with a suspended prison sentence and an order to repay over £33,000 in proceeds of crime.
Super-fit automotive sector fund-raisers walked, cycled and ran their way to a £159,000 charity windfall as part of the Breakout For Ben initiative.
Car dealers should be braced for “a third, successive dismal new plate month” in March after COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’ delivered another 35.5% decline to the UK’s new car registrations in February.
