Sterling Insurance Group has been selected by Fiat Auto Financial Services as the sole provider of their payment protection and Guaranteed Asset Protection (GAP) products across the Fiat and Alfa Romeo dealer network.
Fiat has renamed its Fiat Light Commercial Vehicles division as Fiat Professional as of today.
A mobile phone that simply makes and receives calls is all many of us want. That is the philosophy behind Renault’s expanding Logan range, according to product and strategy chief Patrick Pélata.
The Retail Motor Industry Federation has told the Government that the ‘logistical implications of enacting a national road pricing scheme need to be fully considered before any action is taken’.
Franchised dealers start losing service and repair customers from the moment they sell the car.
Nissan will start production of a 2.0-litre diesel version of its Qashqai SUV at its Sunderland factory this week.
Wicliffe Motor Company has sold its Gloucester Nissan and Fiat business in order to concentrate investment in its Stroud home.
Think back a decade or so and the Bentley marque was the sporting choice of few luxury car buyers, except ageing captains of industry, life peers and middle-aged showbiz stars.
A UK retailer has successfully challenged a fine issued by police to a technician who was test driving a customer’s car that had illegally tinted windows.
Citroën is on the verge of completing a network of 50 business centres.
Motorworld, the dealer group of Midcounties Co-operative Society, is rebranding its outlets as Co-operative Motors.
The head of Honda UK’s car marketing, Jeff Dodds, has quit after one year in the role.
Skoda recorded its highest ever sales record in March with 60,665 units sold, 14.8% than the same month last year.
Springfield Motor Group has pulled back from a deal to sell its seven franchised dealerships to Peter Vardy.
Mutterings in the corridors of power are starting to turn to the imminent review of Block Exemption.
A car that runs on compressed air could be available in the UK within two years.
Disgruntled retailers have accused the AA’s roadside recovery agents of carrying out inaccurate assessments on their customers’ cars.
The American dealer management system (DMS) Arkona will be brought to the UK by MCL Group, it has been announced.
Dealers are being warned about a change in consumer credit laws which are in effect now.
An extra 450 jobs will be created by BMW to meet demand for Mini as production is stepped up to 240,000 cars a year from 2008.
Alex Smith and Daniel Entwistle, both apprentices at Colin Appleyard, have successfully completed the Suzuki Advanced Apprenticeship Programme.
Chris Blue has left Volkswagen Fleet Services where he has worked for the past three years as national fleet sales manager to take up a new role as national fleet manager in Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.
Mitsubishi UK has won a commitment from 11 non-franchised dealers to stop selling new and nearly-new cars imported from outside official European channels.
A number of Far East and Middle East automotive retail businesses are looking to enter the UK car retail market, while others from the region are looking to expand their existing presence.
European carmakers might reach an agreement on how to share the burden of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from new vehicles by July, the head of ACEA said this week.
Results from sales around the UK.
MG owner Nanjing Automotive is in exclusive negotiations with Room 521, an agency set up by Cogent chairman Bill Husselby, to handle the marque's relaunch in the UK.
European new car sales were weak in the first quarter of 2007 – some 0.3% down on the same period of 2006, according to ACEA, the European vehicle traders association.
James Press has been appointed as a director to the board of Toyota Motor Corporation.
Honda has now dropped the customer satisfaction index aspect of its dealer bonus scheme, as first reported by AM in October 2006.
