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Honda lawnmower man oversees £10m in deals  

Honda lawnmower man oversees £10m in deals

HONDA Brayley St Albans has just appointed 27 year old Mark Corr as one of the UK’s youngest sales managers.
This latest promotion by the Hatfield Road car dealer marks quite a career path for Corr: 9 years ago, he was cutting the car dealer’s grass!
He started aged 18 as site boy at the Honda dealer. [...]
Car Podcast: CDM on Mini Countryman

Car Podcast: CDM on Mini Countryman

WANT a frank and honest opinion on a new car from a bunch of car hacks? Stick a mic inside and record the drive.
This week the Car Dealer team were invited to take part in Alex Goy’s Gas Station Podisode – a weekly car podcast – to discuss the new Mini Countryman.
The new crossover is [...]
We've finally found our Banger4BEN

We’ve finally found our Banger4BEN

WE’VE found it. Not the answer to why buyers expect to pay £1k less than the sticker price – no one knows that!
No, we’ve found the car that’ll get us to Monaco and back for our Bangers4BEN adventure in just over a week’s time.
Well, at least we hope it will.
It was sourced from our [...]
60 plate costing buyers more

60 plate costing buyers more

DISCOUNTS on new cars have fallen by 12 percent in 12 months and are now below the £1800 mark.
It is a £248 fall on discounts seen in 2009; a year ago, they were more than £2000.
The reduction in discounts has come despite an increase in list prices, which magazine What Car? says have ‘shot up’.
Even [...]
Ford Granada owner wins full car makeover

Ford Granada owner wins full car makeover

FORD Granada driver Derek Miller has won a £10k makeover for the car he’s owned for over 2 decades.
All Ford dealers ran the competition that was tied in with a free Visual Health Check earlier in the year.
The ‘Spring into Summer’ offered all entrants the opportunity to won a makeover for their motor – [...]
The BMW man who said yes to a Jedi

WHEN you think of product placement successes in the automotive world most people think of Bond and his Astons.
But by far and away one of the best in recent times was BMW’s decision to support Jedi Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman on their trip around the world.
The pair rode the ‘Long Way Round’ the globe [...]


Which? slams garages

WHICH? has accused car garages of ‘shocking levels of incompetence’ following a recent secret survey.
The consumer association recently conducted a big undercover investigation – which found 9 in 10 garages assessed missed a potentially dangerous fault.
It also found 39 percent of garages are charging for something that WASN’T supplied.
This has led Which? to call [...]


Roller’s £195k at auction

BCA reports that posh motors continue to make good money at auction despite the economic uncertainty.
A 2008 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe has just sold for £195,000 at a sale for Lex Autolease.
It was the top draw in a 266-car posh motor auction, that saw more than £4m raised on the day. The average price [...]


VIDEO: Morgan Eva GT

MORGAN has snared the headlines in our podcast this week with the reveal of the dramatic new Eva GT.
We cover its surprise reveal at the Pebble Beach car show in the US, and show just what a headturner it actually is.
Closet to home, there’s news of Kia’s cool Paris Motor Show concept car, the [...]


Dealer finance win

MORE people in 2010 have used car dealer finance than personal loans or their own savings to buy a new car.
Nearly 50 percent of all new cars sold to buyers were bought through forecourt finance.
That equates to 264,377 people using car dealer finance – uptake of which has rocketed 26 percent so far this year.
Paul [...]