Scunthorpe motor dealer Hartwell Ford has received approval from North Lincolnshire Council to make improvements to its forecourt.
Planning officials have approved proposals to convert a showroom vacated by Marshall Motor Group into a mini-supermarket.
Property yields have strengthened across the motor trade sector to levels not seen since the height of the market in 2007, according to chartered surveyors, HSM.
Construction of car dealer group Ridgeway's Audi centre in Oxford is underway - and on track for a mid/late 2014 opening.
Construction is beginning of the UK's flagship Kia dealership alonside the M4 in West London.
Park's Motor Group has opened a Maserati dealership in Glasgow.
Ferrari's latest corporate identity has been installed at Lancaster Ferrari Colchester, part of Jardine Motor Group.
Gordon Lamb Group has bought the property on which its Derby Skoda franchise has operated for the past two years.
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Kia dealership Fine Cars in Hampshire is facing having to re-submit new plans for expansion after its third setback in as many years.
Vertu Motors has made another acquisition, bringing its representation of Nissan up to nine sites.
Newcastle-based Benfield Motor Group has secured a £40m funding package led by Royal Bank of Scotland Corporate & Institutional Banking (RBS CIB) and supported by Barclays Bank to support a company-wide three-year capital investment programme.
The franchise system means that it is generally the dealers who make the investments in property, whilst the manufacturers dictate, but rarely fund, the scale and style of that investment.
Hartwell has completed its £1.5m refurbishment of a former Vauxhall showroom into a multi-franchise car dealership at Kidlington Motor Park near Oxford.
Plans for a two storey Hyundai dealership in Grimsby have been given the go-ahead.
Beadles Group has taken on the Kia franchise and with a Red Cube dealership in Coulsdon, South London.
A franchised dealership in Sussex may face a fight for permission to expand.
Peter Vardy will open its six acre used car specialist site CarStore in Braehead, south west Glasgow next month.
Swansway Group has acquired Hartwell Citroen and Fiat in Chester for an undisclosed sum.
Conditional contracts have been exchanged to develop a new 30,000 sq ft car dealership in Exeter.
SMC Motor Group has taken on the MG franchise in Woking.
Ford is launching 100 'Transit Centres' across the UK which aim to offer improved aftersales service standards, extended opening hours and ‘high-tech’ showrooms.
Redditch-based Johnsons Cars has taken on the Seat brand for the first time after a share purchase of FW Motors’ in Liverpool.
Drayton Group chairman Ken Forbes and Mercedes-Benz UK president and CEO Marcus Breitschwerdt have today carried out a ceremonial ground breaking ceremony at the company’s new Shrewsbury multi-million pound site.
Vindis Group has opened its new Volkswagen showroom in Huntingdon following an undisclosed investment.
