opinion
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Used Cars 19 OctUsed car pricing volatility to follow easing of supply shortages
Following a frantic September which saw car retailers fight to sustain the market’s COVID-19 recovery Cazana director of insights, Rupert Pontin, believes a volatile period of used car pricing trends lies ahead.
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Opinion 12 OctFive tips to boost paid social media marketing of new and used car sales
With Q4 now upon us, dealers will be looking at ways to close this challenging year as strongly as possible.
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Opinion 9 OctAll revved-up and nowhere to go? UK car manufacturing post-Brexit
Some UK based car manufacturers – especially Japanese ones - could end up facing export tariffs with or without a Brexit free trade deal with the European Union (EU).
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Finance 1 OctDealer lending panels need to be fit for COVID-19 car market, says Startline
Dealers need to be considering their lending panels to ensure they are fit for the COVID-19 coronavirus era used car market, says Startline Motor Finance.
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Finance 21 SepNo room for ‘body-swerves or gamification’ in new FCA motor finance rules
The motor finance sector must reinvent itself in light of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) new regulations which will ban all discretionary commission models from January 28.
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Market Insight 18 SepSeptember’s 70-plate will serve up 'profit bonanza' for car dealers
Strong demand for newly-launched 70-plate models in September will make this a profitable quarter for car dealers across the UK, Motorvise’s Fraser Brown has insisted.
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Opinion 15 SepOEMs and car dealers must set aside 'mistrust, suspicion, and confrontation', opinion
After seven months in which car retailers and manufacturers have shifted their retail focus and driven forward with new digital solutions in the face of COVID-19, the changes have to keep coming.
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Opinion 11 SepCash is king: why now's the time for a property tax review, guest opinion
As the post COVID-19 lockdown period places ever more demand on automotive retail businesses being lean and efficient, Alun Oliver, managing director of E³ Consulting, explains why now might be the time for a thorough property tax review.
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Opinion 9 SepIs 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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Opinion 8 Sep‘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 24 AugTop 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 13 AugCan 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 5 AugCar 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 4 AugAct 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 3 Aug
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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Car Dealer News 31 JulEV obsession may catch UK automotive ‘sleeping at the wheel’, says Cambria boss
Cambria Automobiles chief executive Mark Lavery has urged his car retail colleagues to lobby Government over an all-out push to Electric Vehicles (EV) which risks catching UK automotive “sleeping at the wheel”.
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Opinion 24 JulGovernment 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 21 JulIs 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 16 JulVertu 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’.”
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Opinion 15 JulSaker: Put the relationship before the process
Professor Jim Saker suggests that some of the changes driven by the pandemic could be turned into a blessing rather than a curse.
