online car sales
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Opinion 9 Sep
Is it time to abandon new car list prices? A guest opinion
When it comes to new car pricing, OEMs are currently shooting themselves in the foot, but to date they haven’t been able to find anywhere better to aim.
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Market Insight 8 Sep
Car buyers aren’t stressing over Brexit, according to Buyacar
Almost half of all car buyers expect new car prices to rise when Britain’s transition out of the EU is complete, but many still intend to buy one according to research from Buyacar.
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Digital Marketing 4 Sep
Cazoo accelerates national marketing push across TV, radio and print
Cazoo will launch a series of new TV and radio adverts this weekend as part of its ongoing multi-million-pound marketing campaign.
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Car Dealer News 2 Sep
Pendragon's digital car sales strategy targets £85m to £90m profit by 2025
Pendragon will rebrand and restructure its Car Store used car division while driving digital innovation in a new growth strategy which it hopes will deliver an underlying profit before tax of £85m to £90m by 2025.
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Car Dealer News 1 Sep
First Cazoo Customer Centre opening "no u-turn" for online car retailer
Cazoo founder Alex Chesterman has revealed plans for “couple of dozen” Customer Centres across the UK following the opening of the online car retailer's first vehicle handover and servicing facility in Manchester today.
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Supplier News 21 Aug
Marshall and Manheim sign new three-year deal
Marshall Motor Group has agreed a new, three-year deal with vehicle remarketing provider, Manheim.
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Car Dealer News 14 Aug
Vindis Group launches ‘Express Car Buying’ online sales platform
Vindis Group has launched an ‘Express Car Buying’ online retail platform promising up-front, fixed pricing, online finance and home delivery of all its franchised brands and used car stock.
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Digital Marketing 11 Aug
What Car? enhances New Car Buying platform to include stocked cars
What Car? has added a new feature to its New Car Buying platform that allows dealers to sell unregistered, pre-registered and nearly new cars from stock.
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Manufacturer 7 Aug
Polestar 2 EV 18-day test drive tour ‘fully booked’ in 8 hours
An 18-day Polestar 2 customer test drive tour was ‘fully booked’ in eight hours as the Geely-owned performance electric vehicle (EV) brand continues to gain traction without a physical retail presence in the UK.
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Market Insight 4 Aug
Online car buying the new ‘normal’ in the UK, Germany and Spain, reports Carwow
A survey of over 1,000 consumers who purchased a car through carwow since the UK's first dealership reopenings has confirmed a shift towards digital car retailing across Europe.
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News 29 Jul
Cazoo’s Imperial Cars acquisition followed by consultation over redundancies
Imperial Cars has begun to consult its staff over widespread redundancies just two weeks after its acquisition by online car retailer Cazoo.
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Supplier News 29 Jul
Free iVendi product helps dealers achieve £63m of digital deals in 10 weeks
A new iVendi product provided to coronavirus crisis-hit vehicle retailers for free has been used to manage and negotiate more than £63m of vehicle finance deals in the last 10 weeks.
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Market Insight 28 Jul
Three quarters of drivers will not buy a car without seeing it first
The number of UK drivers willing to pay for a car they haven’t seen first has fallen since last year, with three-quarters saying they would not buy one without viewing it in person.
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Used Cars 27 Jul
Cox Automotive online auctions demonstrate car dealers' pent-up demand
Cox Automotive has reported signs of pent-up demand in the used car market after its auctions went wholly online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Opinion 21 Jul
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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Car Dealer News 30 Jun
Cazoo adds Aston Villa to Premier League sponsorship line-up
Cazoo has made another Premier League sponsorship signing in the form of Aston Villa, agreeing a deal which will logos on the team’s shirts and around its Villa Park Stadium.
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Digital Marketing 23 Jun
Dealers receive a record number of new car leads from Auto Trader
Auto Trader says it has sent dealers a record number of new car leads since the reopening of showrooms on June 1.
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Car Dealer News 23 Jun
Cazoo's rapid growth secures 'unicorn' status with $1bn valuation
The online car retailer Cazoo claims to have become the fastest UK business ever to achieve a valuation in excess of $1 billion (£800.8m) – joining an exclusive list of companies known as ‘unicorns’.
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Car Dealer News 15 Jun
Could new CFO appointment indicate future public offering for Cazoo?
Cazoo has completed the appointment of Stephen Morana as its new chief financial officer (CFO), hailing his track record and experience as “second to none”.
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People News 10 Jun
Former Pendragon CEO Trevor Finn plans to ‘re-engineer’ car retail
Pendragon founder and former chief executive, Trevor Finn, has said that he plans to “re-engineer parts of the industry that aren’t functioning efficiently” with his new online business venture.