Citroën has 0% finance and ‘no VAT’ deals across the range until March 31.
Hyundai offers a new deal aimed at couples on a budget.
Motor retail accountancy practice Trevor Jones is in merger talks with sister company ASE.
Bodyshop group Howard Basford has sold a site to insurer RSA.
J V Like, a Land Rover dealer in Powys, Wales, has gone into administration.
The Lightning Car Company, based in London and Peterborough, is still in the process of investor discussions to fund the build of its sleek electric sports car, the Lightning GT.
See the first photograph of the new 2010 BMW 5 Series Touring.
Managers taking the Honda Institute’s leadership programme saw an 8% increase in departmental profitability and a 62% rise in customer service satisfaction.
The partnership behind automotive training firm PHP has split amicably.
Dealers that used to have a franchised dealership that is now dissolved have less time to claim overpaid VAT on demonstrators, as it takes six weeks for a company to be resurrected to the Companies House Register.
BBC Three is searching for the UK’s top mechanic in its new television show Young Mechanic of the Year 2009.
BMW UK sales director Tim Abbott will be promoted to become the company’s new managing director on February 1.
Technology may be the key to engaging the estimated 80 million people of the “millennial generation” — those born between 1981 and 2000 — as automotive consumers, according to a new US survey by Microsoft.
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Government help for the car industry will be capped at £250m per company, it has emerged since its bail-out offer.
Peugeot’s lowest CO2 offering, the 107, has gone on sale in the UK with three trim levels, starting with the Urban Lite model at £7,595.
Porsche has not been able to escape the global downturn with revenues down by 14.3% to €3 billion between August 2008 and January 2009.
Graham Provest (42), General manager, Motorpoint Glasgow
Nationwide, the automotive crash repairer, has revealed that its full years results will be in line with expectations, representing a record year.
The management of Lex, the UK’s biggest car leasing firm, has approached private equity firms to fund a multi-billion pound buy-out of the business, reported Daily Telegraph.
Franchised car dealers have been targeted by consumer magazine Which? with its latest survey which has accused the automotive retail sector as taking customers for a ride.
Administrator allows £62m-turnover De Vries Group showrooms to continue trading.
With the number of empty dealerships expected to increase this year, analysts are predicting commercial property prices to drop by more than 50% as supply increases but demand falls.
Northumberland-based Vauxhall dealer Davidsons of Morpeth has completed its relocation in order to drive sales forward.
GKN has set aside £120m to pay for costs this year of short-term working, plant shutdowns and redundancies, as the auto parts maker announced the loss of 1,400 more jobs in the past two months.
Pendragon has been forced to abandon a plan to attract an investor to raise the profile of Pinnacle, its division providing back-office software for motor retailers.
More than 43,000 Toyotas in Britain have been recalled after a defect which could cause a fire was discovered.
The first aftermarket parts have been certified under Thatcham and TUV Rheinland’s new joint parts certification scheme.
Better financed dealers are expected to lead the market revival in second half of 2009
Do you ever despair over headlines you read in the national press? It’s easy for reporters to lapse into cliché when discussing our industry.
