Dealers miss out on biggest used car profits by shunning older vehicle market
Vauxhall dealers in the UK will be hosting The Big Event from June 14 to June 17 with sales offers and £500 towards the cost of fuel for new car and van customers.
BCA has promoted D'Vidis Jacobs to the newly created role of group corporate development director reporting to Jon Olsen, CEO.
Chevrolet’s redesigned Camaro will be priced from £35,320 in the UK when it goes on sale in November.
The AM100 largest automotive retailers in the UK have posted record breaking figures with the highest revenue performance in 20 years valuing the select group at £40.6 billion.
Leaders from the automotive retail industry have given their views on the biggest factors facing their business this year and Nick Hewer from The Apprentice also gave a special message to one dealer group.
Skoda is reinventing its dealer Fit For Fleet programme, which was set up two years ago to drive fleet sector sales and was based on 30 dealerships singled out for their expertise in handling corporate business.
As the fleet share of the UK market has declined this year (down from 48.6% in the first quarter of 2012 to 46.7% in quarter one of 2013), it is worth looking at who is most dependant on fleet sales.
RAC BuySure has announced its 1,000th used car sale just seven weeks after the initiative officially launched.
Ford’s 1.0 litre EcoBoost engine has been named International Engine of the Year for the second year in a row.
New figures released by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show the strongest growth for more than two years in the number of used cars bought by consumers on finance at dealerships.
Mercedes-Benz has become the latest manufacturer to offer rival products through its leasing arm in an effort to achieve growth.
At the start of this year the superstitious were busy wondering what impact a change to the 13-plate might have on the UK new car market.
Over half of Volkswagen’s UK dealer network will have joined what it calls the “digital showroom revolution” by the end of this year with the German brand’s latest round of corporate identity standard upgrades.
Meridian Motor Group has marked its 10th anniversary by breaking into the AM100 with its acquisition of four Sytner dealerships in the Midlands for an undisclosed sum.
New car registrations increased by 11% to 180,111 units in May and private demand is now beyond pre-recession volumes recorded in 2007.
Autodata has agreed to a three-year contract to supply over 280 Halfords Autocentres in the UK with its online product containing manufacturers' technical information.
MG will unveil its new MG3 supermini at an invite only event at MG Birmingham in Longbridge on June 12.
VW Group is recalling 8,830 VW Up, Seat Mii and Skoda Citigo models in the UK due to an issue with an airbag control unit.
Dealers can still access the AM Aftersales Conference ezine special which features round-ups from the event and video interviews.
Demand for 'retail-ready' de-fleeted cars is still strong, according to Manheim's latest Market Analysis of the wholesale vehicle market.
Skoda has revealed the first details and images of its Octavia vRS hatch and estate ahead of its world debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on July 10.
Honda UK is offering up to £1,500 off on some of its models as part of its summer sales offers which available during June.
A complaint about a Fiat advert centred on whether or not the 500 was built in Italy has been rejected by the Advertising Standards Authority.
Toyota has recalled 5,000 third-generation Prius models in the UK built between March to October 2009 due to a potential brake problem.
Motorists will welcome news of new powers for police to tackle bad driving with selfish driving cited as the top frustration for motorists in a recent BCA survey.
Bolton Kia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kia UK, has opened its new showroom following a five month overhaul to turn it into one of the Korean brand’s red cube design concepts.
The HMRC is targeting car dealers registered as “high value dealers” to crack down on potential money laundering.
According to new data from Complete Automotive Solutions (CAS), part of the Manheim Group, many dealers achieved better than predicted aftersales revenue last year.
Nissan has given its Micra a makeover to help the model appeal to a wider range of customers in time for the plate-change in September.
