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Opinion
‘Agency model’ is the future of automotive retail, a guest opinion
The last six months have been one of the toughest periods the new car market has had to contend with in recent times, but will the effects of coronavirus turn the traditional franchised car dealer model on its head permanently?
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Opinion
Top Tips to improve car retail’s digital marketing in September, opinion
The September plate-change marks the second biggest month of the year for new car sales in the UK.
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Opinion
Can automotive aftersales 'come back stronger'? A guest opinion
Many dealerships and independent service centres were finding it hard to make a profit long before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, due to their low margin, high volume operating models.
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Opinion
Saker: Will governments exert more power over carmakers?
Professor Jim Saker of Loughborough's Centre for Automotive Management makes the argument that the motor industry is no longer in control of its own destiny.
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Opinion
Car dealers must consider the 'lifetime value' of their customers, opinion
For many years a bugbear of the motor industry is the transactional and infrequent relationship the car dealers has with their customers.
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Opinion
Act now to adapt to FCA's motor finance regulation changes, opinion
Many will still need time to fully consider the content of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) final ruling from its motor review and the impending ban on discretionary commission models, published earlier this week.
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Opinion
Mitsubishi: ‘Small and beautiful’ maybe, but not in Europe. Guest opinion
After recent dire results for Mitsubishi - notably a £1.3bn loss for the last quarter - the firm has decided to focus on faster growing, more profitable markets.
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Opinion
Government support can 'Kick-Start' car dealers' digital recruitment, opinion
As the motor retail sector emerges nervously from lockdown, dealers are reporting that the shift towards a digitally-led sales model for new and used cars is progressing far more quickly than many might have imagined even just a few months ago.
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Opinion
Is Cazoo’s Imperial Cars acquisition proof pure online retail isn’t viable?
I did consider picking this topic for my blog last week – the acquisition of Imperial Car Supermarkets in the UK by online used car start-up Cazoo last week.
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Opinion
Vertu CEO Robert Forrester: 'Get to work if you can' should be Government stance
The time has come for the Government to give a definitive bit of advice, to codify what the Prime Minister could only splutter when he said: “Instead of ‘stay at home if you can’ – I think we should now say, well, ‘go back to work if you can’.”
