Tony Gott, chairman and chief executive of Rolls-Royce,resigned yesterday unexpectedly after more than two years guiding the German owned company

British car dealers should not panic because of recent "flat but stable sales" according to Renault UK's managing director

Roger Putnam, Ford of Britain's chairman, has ruled out a return to building its cars in the UK, three years after the company abandoned its last car-producing operation at Dagenham

The RAC has reissued its brand guidelines to help more than 2,500 dealerships selling vehicles with an RAC inspection or warranty to continue to display the brand correctly and attract even more customers

Fred Maguire, president of the Retail Motor Industry Federation and Lookers' chairman, has officially opened BCA's new Training Academy at Preston

Gilders' Volkwagen outlet in Sheffield has reported a significant improvement in its recommendation levels from service customers in a recent survey

Prestige car retailer Sytner has agreed an exclusive remarketing partnership with BCA covering its 75 UK dealerships

Less than a year after launching the Crossfire coupe, Chrysler is bringing an open-top Crossfire roadster to the UK

Honda has won the award for International Engine of the Year for the fifth consecutive year

An internet pre-order campaign for the Mazda RX-8 has won the New Media Age Effectiveness Award for Retail 2004. The campaign was praised for its innovative use of the internet to sell motorcars

Satellite navigation is now standard in the Vauxhall Signum

Escalating interest rates present a major threat to record UK new car sales according to Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders president Tod Evans

Chancellor Gordon Brown, today, congratulated the UK's automotive industry on its contribution to the UK's economy, but he made no comment of Britain's excessive fuel duties

Trade and industry secretary, Patricia Hewitt, defended MG Rover directors at the Sunday Times Motor Show Live against claims that MG Rover executives are being over rewarded financially

Mazda, whose rapid UK sales growth should push sales of the brand up to nearly 3% of the market in 2007, is recruiting extra dealers

Workers at the Ryton Peugeot-Citroen plant should know by the end of this year what car will replace the successful Peugeot 206, which reaches the end of production in 2008

Vauxhall's focus on high-performance variants across its range will only generate around 5,000 sales a year, says the company's chairman Kevin Wale. But, speaking at the Sunday Times Motor Show Live yesterday, he said believed the brand's image would be boosted by the VXR

Michael Howard, the leader of the Conservative Party, claims there is a war being waged on the motorist

Daewoo has reduced its parts prices by up to 63% with immediate effect. The announcement was made today at The Sunday Times Motor Show Live at the NEC

Citroen, Ford, BMW, VW, Peugeot and DaimlerChrysler have agreed to lift servicing restrictions following a major inquiry into new car warranties by the Office of Fair Trading. However Which? magazine has been forced to apologise after claiming seven carmakers were still offering warranties in breach of EU law

Mercedes-Benz Direct has opened its eighth used car centre in the UK following a strong performance by the network last year. More than 10,000 used cars were sold by from Direct sites in 2003 and the group is hoping the new outlet on the North Circular in Park Royal, London, will continue this success

The latest 'league table' of Britain's biggest retail groups will be unveiled at the AM100 Annual Dinner at the Metropole Hotel on the evening of June 9

Gareth Gaston, a director of Hilton Hotels, is to speak at the annual AM Dealer Conference, on June 9 in the Metropole Hotel, Birmingham. His theme will be 'retaining more customers through e-commerce'

Retailers are missing out on a major revenue stream by not offering so-called “smart” repairs, according to a new survey. Despite using paintless dent removal techniques on their own stock to boost values, 41.5% of dealerships do not offer drivers the service in their aftersales departments, says the report

Manufacturer standards: good or bad for your business? They mean better facilities for customers, but at a hefty cost

Does your company have a vision? Most do, although few of their employees, when asked, know what that vision (or business objective) is. Many head offices have the company vision written on the wall; some dealerships also have plaques with the mission statement on: but it's not enough to have them framed – staff need to, first, be aware of them and, second, be committed to them

'Skills shortage in the motor industry'

In celebration of Rover's Official Car Supplier status to Team GB and the British Olympic Association, a commemorative Olympic Streetwise LE model has been produced to mark the team's participation in the Olympic games in Athens

Mitsubishi's British operation, which has avoided controversy surrounding the company's £2.35 billion Japanese bail out, is planning to boost sales by 50% within two years

If your company hasn't applied to the Financial Services Authority for authorisation to sell and advise on insurance-related products, you're running out of time. The deadline to guarantee that you become authorised from January 14, 2005, is July 13 – just weeks away