Honda (UK) and BCA united for a special closed sale at Nottingham auction centre featuring more than 250 cars direct from Honda and attracted 60 franchised dealers from across the UK.
Ford is considering a bid for Daewoo following General Motors' £865m investment in Fuji Heavy Industries.
Direct Line has threatened legal action against former employee Keith Johnson for a breach of confidence. Mr Johnson claimed in Automotive Management that the insurer's bodyshop network had “no long-term future”.
John Clark Motor Group has invested £2.5m in a new BMW dealership in Aberdeen. The 2.6-acre site will be BMW's largest in Scotland and replaces the existing dealership, occupied since 1982.
East Anglian dealer group RC Edmondson last week underwent a management buy-out for an undisclosed amount. The management team was advised by Grant Thornton Corporate Finance, with financial backing from Ford Motor Credit and NatWest bank.
Nationwide Accident Repair Services has announced the appointment of Adrian Dunleavy as group chief executive, with effect from October 1.
Information services provider Experian has built and will manage the first online computer database of insured drivers. The new database was built on behalf of the Motor Insurers Information Centre in order to reduce the rising costs of uninsured driving in Britain, estimated at around £400m a year.
Mitsubishi has announced plans to build a new European engine plant.
East Midlands' dealership Co-Op Motor Group has doubled the workforce at its Nottingham workshop, creating 15 new jobs.
The Luton-based Vauxhall customer assistance centre was the UK's first dedicated automotive business handling customer and dealer enquiries. Today, the centre is playing an increasingly important role for dealers and customers across Europe as Vauxhall becomes a significant division within General Motors Europe.
Andrey Pavlovich spent £250 launching a business selling sowing machines after the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. Now he has invested almost £6m in Moscow's flagship Mercedes-Benz dealership.
More than 90% of the Russian car market is shared by domestic producers and the biggest, AvtoVaz (which builds Ladas), has a 76% share. In the first six months of this year, AvtoVaz produced nearly 376,000 cars, 30,000 more than in the corresponding period of last year.
The Genser dealership in one of Moscow's sprawling suburbs could be the shape to come of Renault and Nissan dealers across Europe.
BMW's new 2-litre engine for the 3 Series owes a small part of its development to Rover's K-series engine.
DaimlerChrysler Services has launched an online motor insurance service for Chrysler and Jeep customers.
The organisers of the Scottish Motor Show have hit back at suggestions by the RMI that it, and other such events, have a limited future.
Glass's is calling on the Government to close a legal loophole in the registration system to combat the £37.5m cost to the taxpayer of illegally dumped cars.
Manufacturers have began to offer support and financial aid to the victims of this week's terrorist attacks in the US.
Exchange & Mart has re-branded its website, ixM, to www.exchangeandmart.co.uk - its original name. The move is part of the strategic development of the Exchange & Mart brand aimed at enabling the company to exploit its 130-year heritage and strengthen its on and offline proposition.
Yorkshire-based independent car retailer Nidd Vale Group has opened it new £2m aftersales centre in Hornbeam Business Park, Harrogate.
Contract hire company First National Vehicle Holdings has completed the year's biggest single courtesy car deal, winning a competitive tender to supply over 400 'A'class Mercedes to bodyshop firm Solus London Limited.
GRS is encouraging motor retailers to take advantage of its free updates on the latest trends in the used car market.
The British International Motor Show is vital to the UK motor industry, to consumers and not least to the West Midlands economy.
Honda has introduced online purchasing via its www.honda.co.uk website for all approved used cars. The move, intended to boost business for Honda retailers by offering another route to market, enables customers to source cars from the nationwide dealer network.
There are two separate areas of the commercial vehicle market which are currently enjoying strong growth, but could well have difficulty when it comes to the issue of future residual values.
It would be an understatement to say August was quiet as the used car market appeared to be on holiday, but in the background preparations for new September registrations were in full swing. Dealers have been trying to entice retail buyers into the showroom with the use of national and local press advertising about the new registration system.<br> However, plenty of dealers are reporting that most retail customers walking into the showroom are unaware of the new system.
Ryland Group is optimistic of the growing business opportunities in the luxury car sector as it today reported a growth in interim profits.
Kalamazoo Computer Group has announced the resignation of chief executive Malcolm Roberts. He had held the post since 1998. No reason was given for his leaving.
