Ford Motor Company and insurer Norwich Union Insurance have signed to supply Ford drivers with genuine Ford parts when their car requires repair.
Here’s a car to delight Blue Oval dealers: the production version of Ford’s SAV crossover concept.
A troubleshooter has been called in to Karma Cars less than six months after the Watford used car supermarket was launched by Private and Commercial Finance Group.
Lexus, winner of the JD Power customer satisfaction survey for the fifth year running, only narrowly managed to beat Skoda to first place in the most influential rating of automotive consumers.
Two former directors of Finelist, the parts distribution group that failed spectacularly in 2000 with estimated debts of £500m, have been disqualified from being company directors for seven years.
KBA Computer Systems has signed a deal with Finnish company Automaster to bring its dealer management system into the UK.
Edwards Cars and MG Rover Exports have called in PricewaterhouseCoopers as administrators.
Nissan has reported record annual operating profits of 861.16bn yen (£5.5bn) to the end of March, up 4.4% on the year.
Kia has expanded their mid-sized MPV line-up with the introduction of the Carens 2.0 petrol GS, priced at £9,995.
Auto Delta, part of independent warehouse distributor GP Automotive, has launched a new brake and clutch hydraulics catalogue.
Volkswagen is lowering Golf prices and improving specification.
Mitsubishi is offering spring deals from its 144 dealers, providing discounts of up to £2,000.
Nick Smith on the importance of turning Japanese in the changing western world.
Provisional output data released today by the Office for National Statistics shows car production fell 6% to 153,292 units in March and 2.8% over the year to date. Output for export fell 3.8% in March; production for home markets fell 11%.
DaimlerChrysler is in talks to set up a joint venture in China that would make and export Chrysler cars to North America, an executive for the company says.
Centurion Electronics, one of the biggest names in the UK’s in-car screen sector, is facing a “substantial claim” for damages from a rival which alleges it has breached copyright laws.
Volkswagen Group has combined forces with automotive industry training provider EMTEC to create a purpose built apprentice facility in Ruddington, Nottingham.
Turnover at Armour Group has risen 27% year-on-year.The Bordon-based supplier of car stereo and audio-visual equipment reports “steady growth” in business with Pendragon and Arnold Clark.
The Bosch Car Service programme, created to enable independent garages to enhance and extend their service using the latest Bosch diagnostic equipment, has reached 180 outlets.
A scrapyard owner from Newark, Nottinghamshire, has been fined £50,000 for breaches of health and safety laws which led to employee Simon Teece being killed in a car cutting machine.
Lookers this week officially became a billion pound company when the group in eigth spot in the AM100 reported for the first time that its revenue line had moved into 10 figures.
Continental Tyres won a trophy for Manufacturer of the Year at the inaugural Tyre & Fast-Fit awards, organised by the National Tyre Distributors’ Association.
Jaguar is to scale down production of its X-type model, the Ford-owned carmaker has announced.
News editor Tim Rose and industry editor Tony Willard report on the consequences of MGR administration.
The Retail Motor Industry Federation has urged major clearing bank and finance houses to continue to support MG Rover’s used vehicle stock financing branch as well as other parts of the business.
Large companies are increasing their grip on the retail motor industry, with one fifth of the country’s 5,135 dealerships now in the hands of the AM top 20 dealer groups.
HR Owen has officially opened its new £7.5m purpose-built BMW and Mini dealership on the A40 in West London.
Volvo dealerships in the UK are investing in new-look interiors as part of the carmaker’s global programme of corporate identity re-design, entitled Volvo Next Face (VNF).
For dealer group Norton Way Motors, one of its best business decisions was collaborating with Honda on the creation of the world’s first Honda Brand Centre in Chiswick, West London.
The £18.1m acquisition of the North-west based Robert Smith Group has seen Inchcape’s representation of Mercedes-Benz almost double this month.
