Groupe Renault UK has created and deployed a live Virtual Showroom that enables face-to-face consumer conversations.
A CO2 emissions-reducing car scrappage scheme is needed in order to avoid a perfect storm of falling sales and soaring fines from stringent new EU regulations driving carmakers ‘to the edge’.
Premier Car Supermarket looks poised to expand into Kettering after completing the acquisition of a 3.55-acre site giving its “access to thousands, if not millions of potential customers”.
Used car marketplace heycar has experienced a spike in web traffic as more people head online to plan their next car purchase.
FCA UK has launched Car@Home, a new service that allows its dealers to communicate with customers remotely and sell vehicles.
The Independent Motor Dealers Association (IMDA) has welcomed Jim Reid Vehicle Sales’ Phil Buchan to its board.
Trade and wholesale car sales delivered 3,500 vehicles into the used car market during April’s COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown automotive retail sector, according to Cap HPI.
It is interesting to see further details announced today around the ongoing financial investigation at Lookers.
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A range of smart new digital strategies from different car retailers are driving trade at a tough time.
As the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown continues, car dealers are taking varying approaches to their online marketing as most make efforts to prioritise online marketing in preparation for a new kind of 'normal'.
The Financial Conduct Authority has warned motor finance firms not to repossess vehicles or end contracts with customers in financial difficulty due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will gradually resume production at its manufacturing plant in Solihull, in the UK, from May 18.
Analysis of online activity over the last seven days indicate a potential rebound for the car retail market.
While used car performance helped to deliver stable levels of profit and volume in 2019 there have been some signs of an early wobble in 2020 with pressure on petrol values in particular.
Lookers will expand its internal fraud investigations to its entire business after initial findings from one of its operating divisions resulted in an expected one-off charge of over £4 million in its 2019 financial results.
In the lead up to the webinar, Reputation.com released its annual Automotive Reputation Report for 2020.
Buyacar has completed £1.1 million of used car sales and deliveries during the UK’s COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown - with just 42% going to key workers.
Volvo has launched a new online sales platform, allowing customers to buy or lease a brand new Volvo from their own home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Five years ago, almost every manufacturer was making presentations about autonomous vehicles and how they would be on the road by 2020.
Clarification of car retailers’ ongoing ability to sell cars online and deliver them to customers during the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown period has been hailed as “great news”.
Stoneacre Motor Group's directors will forego their salaries after taking the decision to furlough 3,000 employees due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic – vowing not to take a wage until the business “returns to profitability”.
Nearly half of UK public transport users (48%) said they would be less likely to use it once lockdown restrictions have been lifted, according to new research by Auto Trader.
The automotive industry is starting to look beyond the end of lockdown and weigh-up what the short and medium-term impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis will be.
May's AM magazine has now been published here as an e-zine so read about DS Automobiles, the UK used car market, Drayton Motors Kia, autonomous cars and COVID-19
Vauxhall has teased the first images of its forthcoming Mokka electric vehicle (EV) as Ford confirmed that it will not produce another version of its flagship Focus RS high-perfomance hatchback.
The UK’s used van market will recover faster than its car equivalent following the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown as businesses turn to commercial vehicles to re-start their operations, Aston Barclay has predicted.
Nissan dealers will loan more than 100 free cars to NHS workers in need of mobility during the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Tesla Supercharger network has been named the best EV charging network by Auto Express readers, in its annual Driver Power Survey.
I am writing this article the day after Boris Johnson announced the first stage of stringent restrictions on British life as a response to Coronavirus.
