While December is the quietest month for used car sales, data from the Manheim-owned Motors website suggests the dip in online visits only lasts from 23rd to 25th, before bouncing back strongly on Boxing Day.
Web-based software provider Cooper Solutions has joined forces with car price guide CAP to provide a new service for sellers using its FullAuction trade site.
Britain’s latest MG dealership has opened at Cambridge.
Scottish dealer Ian H Cameron said it is happy with its financial results and the company well-placed to exploit next year's market despite a 22% pre-tax profit fall in its latest results.
Full year financial results for Cambria Automobiles saw its underlying pre-tax profit drop by more than a third while turnover also fell.
Websites which are not utilising video could be losing potential customers, according to video suppliers AutosOnShow.TV.
Autotrade-mail, the online used car trading network, warns that dealers who only use auctions to dispose of their part exchange vehicles may be compromising the values achieved.
Vertu Motors has acquired the business and certain assets of the Vauxhall dealership in Harrogate, Yorkshire of Nidd Vale Motors Limited, which is in administration for £0.8 million. No goodwill has been paid.
AM will be announcing both the guest host and comedian early in the New Year - look out for the event preview e-zine landing in your inbox during the first weeks of 2013.
Essex Auto Group has launched a new website as part of its digital strategy. Combining a fresh look with new functionality, the site offers customers an improved online experience when researching and buying a car, says the group.
Scottish Audi/Volkswagen group Hawco has welcomed Allan McGuire to its Inverness-based business as group operations director.
Challenge Lusky’ was part of a management plan that transformed a failing Suzuki dealership in Leeds into one of the brand’s top three for sales and aftersales.
The warranty renewal route is many and varied - should it be administered by the sales or aftersales team, the warranty provider, manufacturer or a customer contact centre?
Adrian Rushmore is leaving Glass's, the used car valuations experts.
Mazda has announced a combination of offers to give its core models a sales push through 2013's first quarter.
Dealers must balance sales of extensions with customer's opportunity to change the car.
Solera Holdings, owner of the UK’s vehicle provenance provider HPI, has bought CarweB.
Euro NCAP has crash tested some of Europe’s best-selling business vans and van-based MPVs using protocols that it claims are more true-to-life than the current legal tests for these van-based vehicles.
JCT600 is set to invest £4.7m in a new Audi dealership in a project that will create a two storey used car display area.
At the time of writing, the US Presidential election is about to take place. From all the pollsters, the result is too close to call in advance.
A depressed new car market has brought used car operations to the fore for most franchised dealers. But with some two miillion fewer new car registrations over the past five years, that has created its own set of challenges for this market segment.
UK used car sales increased slightly by 0.5% to 1,757,320 units in Q3 this year, according to the latest figures from Experian.
Skoda has revealed the first details on its third-generation Octavia which will go on the sale in time for the March plate change.
More than 250 people have been made redundant with immediate affect after Drive Assist went into administration.
Volvo Cars will slow production in the New Year as it rebalances supply against demand.
Following last month’s look at the pressure on margins, it’s time we turn to a less frequently discussed issue: the consumer change cycle.
Penton Motor Group, the south of England based, Wilson family owned, Citroën and Suzuki dealer group have been appointed as the Vauxhall dealer for the Salisbury and Andover areas.
New car finance provided through dealerships recorded double-digit growth for the tenth consecutive month in October, according to the latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA).
The majority of dealers’ digital strategies are not keeping pace with the pace of change in consumer behaviour, according to Google.
GM Europe has confirmed it will end production at one of its plants in Germany in 2016.
