Hyundai’s new i10 city car will be priced from £6,495 when it goes on sale in the UK on April 2.
UK MEPs (Member of European Parliament) were encouraged to work with the automotive industry to help deliver a workable carbon dioxide tailpipe regulation for new cars.
Dealership and workshop management could be held liable for deaths resulting from accidents caused by faulty vehicles or workmanship, according to new legislation to be introduced in April.
CV questions to industry highflyers.
Who’s got the toughest job in motorville? Bosses at cash-strapped Jaguar? Hardly, especially with their enthusiastic new Indian suitors.
The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure of annual inflation in the UK was 2.2% in January, up from 2.1% in December.
Toyota will launch its production ready IQ city car at the Geneva Motor Show next month.
In the face of mounting debts Carter & Carter is holding an extraordinary general meeting this week to ask shareholders to allow it to exceed its current borrowing limits and avoid administration.
Sandicliffe Motor Group’s Eco-Drive, launched in January 2007, has already saved the company “tens of thousands of pounds”, said organising director Paul Woodhouse.
General Motors has posted record losses of £19.8 billion during 2007 and has now offered voluntary redundancy to 74,000 of its workers.
Americans and Europeans are ready to buy the same cars.
Any vehicle which emits less than 120g/km of carbon dioxide emissions will now not have to pay the London Congestion Charge.
Thatcham has welcomed technological advances in crash avoidance systems by car manufacturers which it says could save more than 125,000 injuries each year.
Tata Motors is planning to engineer a version of its Nano world car to meet European crash and emission standards before 2012.
Nissan Europe has reported a record January with sales of 50,542 units, representing an increase of 71.9% year on year.
Murry Linin has been appointed as the new dealer principal Marshall Cambridge Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge.
The AA has recruited six technicians to its Fuel Assist service for motorists that put the wrong fuel in their car.
The motor industry repair code of practice is on schedule for launch in May, according to the organisation responsible for overseeing its development.
Ex-Inchcape Retail managing director Robert Hazelwood will become Skoda UK’s new director on March 1.
London mayor Ken Livingstone will tomorrow announce whether changes will be made to the daily Congestion Charge to let sub-120g/km CO2 emission vehicles pay nothing while cars emitting above 225g/km CO2 get charged £25.
Volkswagen is replacing its Passat SE model with a new variant called the Passat Highline.
Ray Holloway, director of the RMIF’s Petrol Retailers Association (PRA), has called for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to cancel the 2 pence per litre fuel duty rise scheduled for April 1.
A new light commercial vehicle is all set to win extra business for Volkswagen in Britain – as a car.
Accountants have urged dealers who believe they are owed VAT overpaid on demonstrators between 1973 and 1996 to submit a claim, following a House of Lords ruling at the end of January.
Renault will be launching its first 4x4 SUV crossover, the Koleos, this year and the new model will make its world debut at the Geneva Motor Show next month.
Jim O’Donnell will leave as head of BMW UK on March 1 to become president and chief operating officer of BMW North America.
We’ve all heard about the credit crunch phenomenon over recent months and it’s been widely reported that the source of the problem was the US mortgage sub-prime sector.
Under BMW, Rolls-Royce has slowly but surely been growing. It all started with the Phantom super-saloon.
There is no doubt which segment was the star performer of last year: lower-medium exceeded 35% of the total market, the first time since 1987, when the car market was far less fragmented than it is today.
The DWS Bodyworks model is all about scale and efficiency. The south-east group has acquired four sites over the past year – the latest is Supreme in Basildon – doubling the size of the business.
