Marshall Motor Group has appointed Sue Porter as director for sales process, finance, insurance and warranty.
AM-online has teamed up with Symco Training Limited to bring you free training videos offering skills designed to maximise your business's ability to sell more cars and maximise profits.
The US Treasury may adopt a plan that would allow them or a car czar to force General Motors and Chrysler into bankruptcy.
The sinking of the Solent Motor Group has sent shockwaves through motor retailers along the south coast.
France became the first country yesterday to provide credit guarantees to the financing arms of its carmakers.
AM is looking to launch a campaign to improve confidence in the market place.
Tim Tozer is leaving the post of chief executive of Mitsubishi Motors Europe.
Subaru has decided to withdraw from the 2009 World Rally Championship in order to try and save on costs during 2009.
Fiat is apparently looking to team up wth PSA Peugeot Citreon, according to an Italian newspaper.
Peugeot has signed a three-year contract with DHL Inside Track to deliver corporate, dealer network and fleet events.
Pendragon is closing its Cadillac, Corvette and Hummer dealership in Edinburgh.
Chinese officials smashed up a car showroom with 10 new Audis inside, because the owner refused to make way for a railway project.
Workers at Jaguar's Castle Bromwich factory are due to stop production for three weeks over Christmas.
Volvo has revealed the first pictures of its S60 concept which will be unveiled at the Detroit Motor Show in January.
Financial services companies have been too slow to stop mis-selling payment protection insurance (PPI), said the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Workers at a car parts factory that is looking to shed 208 jobs are staging a public meeting in Swansea later.
An industrial tribunal is due to give a ruling this month on an alleged race row case involving a Pendragon dealership.
Pendragon and its bankers are looking for ways to slash its £287 million debts.
The manufacturers who will navigate the recession best will be those who look after their dealer networks. After all, their policies (excessive standards, showroom investment, complex bonus structures) have put dealers under pressure, squeezing their margins and stemming cash flow.
BMW has revealed details for its new Z4 which will be the first roadster from the German manufacturer to feature a retractable hard-top roof.
Vauxhall has offered workers at its Elesmere Port plant eight months off on 30 per cent pay.
Inchcape has given a profit warning for 2009, stating that its sales declines would be wider than previously anticipated.
Land Rover has launched a new model which engine stops when its is stationary to reduce its emissions output.
Ford’s fastest-ever European production car the 2009 Focus RS will be priced from £24,995 when it goes on sale in the UK in March.
SsangYong is now offering free seven-day drive away insurance on its models in association with Norwich Union.
In the bleak mid-winter, as buyers shun showrooms and recession looms, it’s a difficult time to be selling cars. Especially big, thirsty and expensive ones. But to find out just how difficult, I recently spent a day in Stuttgart speaking to the top brass at Porsche.
Kia's new Soul supermini, on sale from February, will boost the company's 2009 sales to around 33,000, a respectable increase from the 31,500 it will sell this year, says managing director Paul Philpott.
Some of the UK’s many large car showrooms have already been closed in the current downturn, and the same fate awaits others in 2009.
Sales of used cars during Q3 2008 fell to their lowest point since 1999, according to the latest statistics from Experian, the global information services company.
HR Owen is searching for a new two acre site for its Jack Barclay Bentley car servicing business following the American Embassy’s acquisition of its Wandsworth site.
