Nationwide Autocentres, the independent service and maintenance network, is to use the 1link service network across its 190 outlets.
HR Owen, the prestige and premium retailer, is blaming uncertainty surrounding the changes to block exemption for a £400,000 fall in its interim profits.
Vehicle finance broker Automech has acquired Lumley Auto, the insurance and warranty provider.
Automotive glass fibre products supplier NGF is to invest £2.5m in its St Helens factory, take on 10 new staff and increasing production.
An Audi retailer in Dorset is to open a £500,000 bodyshop specialising in the repair of aluminium-based cars.
Toyota is launching two new super clean engines for its Avensis.
Repairers are raising questions about the proposed merger of the Retail Motor Industry Federation's bodyshop division with the Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association.
General Motors is drawing up plans to move its Vauxhall subsidiary upmarket, AM-online can reveal.
Pinewood, the dealer management systems provider, has seen a 40 per cent increase in system sales this year thanks to its new Pinnacle DMS.
Group Tyre (UK) has confirmed it is in talks with four major car manufacturers following its appointment by IM Group as the official tyre partner for its Subaru, Isuzu and Daihatsu dealer network.
Cheshire-based Cliff Dickenson Ford has bought the Chester Road Garage site in Winsford.
Dealer support service at Volkswagen UK is to be operated by Mondial.
Simon Thomas has replaced Simon Rutherford as UK sales director at Nissan Motor (GB).
Rycroft vehicles will open DaimlerChrysler's first multi-franchise site in Newcastle.
Sytner Group has opened a new £3.25m Porsche dealerships – setting the template for the next breed of Porsche sites in its network.
MG has launched a V8-powered version of its ZT saloon and ZT-T estate. Powered by Ford's 260bhp, 4.6-litre V8 engine, used in North America in the Mustang, the rear- wheel drive MG ZT 260 V8 hopes to compete with the likes of the BMW 330i, Jaguar X-Type and Volvo S60 T5.
Dealers can now check the authenticity of an import prior to purchasing the vehicle.
Volvo has struck a deal with Pininfarina to develop its next-generation convertible.
Daihatsu's major sales offensive continues as it strives to grow its retail network to 120 sites by 2005.
Reg Vardy, one of the UK's largest motor retailers, has added four more dealerships to its network as part of a relentless expansion strategy.
Motability Direct has reached a new landmark with the sale of its 100,000 car online.
BCA Europe's new chief executive Jon Olsen is pushing ahead with an ambitious expansion plan for the auction group following the retirement of his predecessor, Tom Gibson, earlier this year.
Lookers Group is involved in discussions with BMW and Mercedes-Benz as it looks to add the two premium brands to its portfolio.
Bentley retailer Broughtons has sold its Birmingham site to the Sytner Group to finance a new site in the Thames Valley.
Sales of prestige car models are fetching more than 20 per cent above CAP figures, according to Manheim Auctions.
UK car production climbed 9.5 per cent over the last three months but output for the year to date is down 0.3 per cent, according to the Office of National Statistics.
The future of car tyre production in the UK hangs in the balance after one of the world's largest manufacturers announced it was moving production to mainland Europe.
There is nothing wrong with the Ford Fusion, despite what others in the media would have you believe.
A national accreditation scheme for body fitters, painters and panel repair technicians has been launched by the Institute of the Motor Industry and training organisation Thatcham.
Any suggestion that Volkswagen light commercial vehicles were ever treated as second class product and its customers as less important than the manufact-urer's new car buyers should be history by the end of this year.
