The Audi A4, has been voted the Company Car of the Year in this year's Fleet News Awards, held last night in London.
Chevron is launching a promotional programme for its Havoline oil brand in order to push sales of one-litre top-up packs in service centres.
EDF and Toyota have announced a major step forward in their joint road-trials in France, involving plug-in hybrid vehicles equipped with lithium-ion batteries.
The Auto Body Professionals Club (ABP) is hitting the road in the UK with a series of free business-to-business forums.
West Riding Toyota is continuing its innovative publicity drive with its first dealership 'gorilla' marketing campaign.
In the latest in our series of training videos in conjunction with Symco Training, the new installment looks at tackling customers convinced the downturn in the market means entitlement to the best deal they will ever get.
Lawrence Good has left IM Group as managing director of its Subaru and Isuzu brands.
SMC Group is closing its Renault dealership in Guildford at the end of the month.
Joint purchasing of certain components is allowing BMW and Daimler to generate savings of more than 8%.
A US politician is pushing forward a scrappage proposal but wants it to only apply to US-built vehicles.
There are buyers out there despite the downturn – make sure you find them.
The motorist ‘agony uncle’ Honest John website has selected five automotive companies to be the first to receive its HAT (highly approved trader) standard.
Saab’s UK franchised network has won a better deal from GM UK after resisting pressure to take more new cars under normal payment deals.
Infiniti will not launch in the UK with domestic dealer groups. Instead, Nissan’s premium sister brand has chosen two partners from the Middle East.
Kia Motors is moving its parts operations to a new warehouse in Tamworth, Staffordshire that will support its UK dealer network.
Blue Bell BMW in Crewe car dealership will stage a film premiere on March 26 to celebrate the launch of a new model.
The Prime Minister will have the final say on the introduction of a scrappage scheme designed to lift the gloom in the car and van retail market.
A car ‘scrappage’ scheme could benefit fleets by increasing residual values if the Government gives it the go-ahead, claims the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association.
Ssangyong will be showing an almost production-ready example of its new C200 crossover SUV at the Seoul Motor Show in South Korea on April 2.
The Treasury, it's really not warming to proposals for a scrappage scheme in this country. In fact, it is giving off about as much warmth as a curry left over from the night before, left outside in a blizzard in Siberia.
More than 30 keys belonging to a Telford car dealership were stolen from a worker’s vehicle yesterday.
Thomas Tattam was the winner of a new Peugeot 107 Verve in a national draw held to raise money for BEN, the automotive industry’s charity.
Analysis of responses can help dealers direct their budgets more effectively.
Few car drivers regularly check tyre pressures despite the safety implications but a new method of tyre inflation could provide the answer.
The RMIF has talked to a Treasury minister about its plans to form a car dealer bank in partnership with an existing financial institution.
The Motor Industry Code of Practice for Service and Repair has boosted its independent subscriber levels with the commitment of over 500 garages through Prestige Car Servicing.
A ‘three-for-one’ deal could be offered by dealers to stimulate new car sales.
Astle BMW, a BMW dealer in Grimsby and Scunthorpe, is the first in the network to offer 0% finance on car sales in its dealership.
A crack down on car finance fraud last year saved the motor finance industry £123 million.
The Russian owner of supercar manufacturer Spyker survived an assasination attempt last week in which he was shot seven times.
