The first Bugatti Veyron to be crashed on a public road has happened in the UK.
The Office of Fair Trading has launched a month-long ‘OFT Approved’ codes awareness campaign this week, advising consumers to look for businesses displaying the OFT Approved code logo when buying goods and services.
The Mayor of Richmond upon Thames, the London borough in the headlines recently for linking residents’ parking charges with CO2 emissions, has broken with tradition by switching from a limo to a Toyota Prius as his official car.
With so many new KPIs and new systems to contend with, dealerships have to work hard at keeping their systems and processes simple.
As one relationship looks to be heading for divorce, so another is growing closer. DaimlerChrysler is tipped to offload its embattled US division, nine years after the tie-up.
Audi has unveiled its new A5 coupe and top spec S5 model at today’s Geneva Motor Show.
Mazda has showcased the world premiere of its new Mazda2 at the Geneva Motor Show today.
Volvo has revealed the first pictures and video of its new XC70 all-wheel drive estate model at the Geneva Motor Show today.
The Pendragon results finally stemmed a year of share price decline, which has had analysts worried and shareholders perplexed.
Inchcape has reported a 20.6% rise in full-year pre-tax profits to £213.9 million in 2006, from £177.3m in 2005.
Providing dealers with a no-cost outsourced accident management service is the new challenge for Daksh Gupta, former director of Inchcape’s Mercedes-Benz and Smart franchises.
Land Rover has revealed how it will offset its emissions with its new CO2 Offset Programme, which enables both Land Rover and its customers to reduce greenhouse gases.
On February 16 the Sandicliffe Group opened Nottingham’s only official Kia and Fiat dealership.
A judge has jailed James Munroe, former operations director of Automotive Skills, for stealing £421,000 from his employer.
Prices for Ford’s new C-Max will range from £12,995 for the Studio 1.6-litre 98bhp and rise to £19,045 for the 2.0TDCi 133bhp top-of-the-range Titanium.
As a penalty the FSA have brought to the public attention a number of failings of FSA requirements by Cathedral Motor Company Ltd, trading as Arbury.
Absence and in particular sickness absence is a difficult area to manage in the best of organisations.
From April 1 statutory maternity / paternity and adoption pay rises from £108.85 to £112.75 per week.
From February 27 the fine has increased to £60 and three points on the licence for acceptance of a roadside fixed penalty notice.
Did you know that government consultation on banning smoking in enclosed public place and workplaces proposes that it will be illegal by July 1, 2007?
Increasingly we receive queries on the procedures to be followed in employing non-UK employees.
In a previous bulletin we reported that the organisation Heyday had challenged the mandatory requirement procedures in the age discrimination legislation.
Recent reports about the use of stepladders being banned by HSE are, of course, not correct.
Peter Townsend, sold a number of clocked cars ostensibly as private sales but also ran a car site under the company name of Vale Road Car Sales Ltd in Rhyl, North Wales.
Trading Standards Officers in Ipswich, Suffolk carried out a ‘test purchase’ of a pre-MOT check at Easy Tread Tyres and Exhausts, run by Mr Terrance Akers.
A new ‘recipe for disaster’ is incorporated with law going through parliament at the moment.
The RMIF is finalizing the changes to its Group Board and National Council restructure, following the sale of Remit in May 2006.
For Mark Lavery, former operations director of Hartwell Group, buying Swindon Motor Park made an ideal launch-pad for his ambition to head his own group.
PSA Peugeot Citroen has decided to stop discussions with Proton over a possible collaboration.
The motor industry in Europe has been thrown into disarray by the European Commission’s decision to take control of attempts to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of new cars.
