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Car Dealer Power: Have your say!  

Car Dealer Power: Have your say!

TODAY we’re launching our most ambitious project yet. It’s called Car Dealer Power and we need YOUR help!
Car Dealer Power is a special survey that will help us find the best car manufacturer in the UK to represent as well as the best suppliers to do business with.
And as a thank you for taking part [...]

Jaguar premium year in 2010

Jaguar premium year in 2010

2010 will be a critical year for Jaguar car dealers as the firm formally adopts a defined premium strategy.

Jaguar dealers will be rewarded for the pain of recent years with better profits and ‘class leading’ cars to sell.

‘The X-Type has now finished,’ Jaguar UK MD Geoff Cousins told Car Dealer Magazine at the [...]

Used value price increase slows

Used value price increase slows

USED car prices are still rising but the rate of improvement has slowed to an average of just £20.
BCA reports the marginal average rise equated to an average month-on-month increase of 0.3 percent.
Why the slow in improvement? Well, it’s not because the market is losing enthusiasm, says the BCA Pulse report. It is because values [...]

Buyers most eager for BMW 5 Series

Buyers most eager for BMW 5 Series

BMW’S 5 Series is the car UK drivers are most looking forward to seeing during 2010 reports a website.
Contracthireandleasing.com surveyed its visitors, and found 1 in 5 people were looking forward to seeing it above any other new 2010 car.
The car leasing deal hub site revealed the Audi A8 as next, with Jaguar’s new XJ [...]

Budget will be March 24

Budget will be March 24

GOVERNMENT chiefs have announced the 2010 Budget will be held on Wednesday 24 March.

Confirmation from Chancellor Alistair Darling has got immediate response from the SMMT.
In a pre-Budget submission, the SMMT called upon the Government to support long term investment for car makers and car dealers.
However, as the scrappage scheme ends, chief Paul Everitt has also [...]

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Car dealer quadruples

HARRATTS Nissan Sheffield has quadrupled its sales in 2009 and outperformed every other Harratts dealer.
The dealer, which opened in January 2008, recorded a massive 427 percent rise in sales for 2009.
Impressive stuff, said the firm’s directors, given how the UK car industry has contracted by 6 percent in the same period.
Shaun Harratt, MD of [...]


SAF Approved up North

THE Car People is the latest car dealer group to achieve 100 percent completion of the FLA competence test.
In gaining Specialist Automotive Finance status, the firm aims to help promote improved professionalism and expertise when selling car finance.
The Car People’s finance provider, Black Horse, now aims to push the rest of its 10,000 car dealers [...]


Ford top again in Feb

FORD yet again leads the way for new car sales with latest February 2010 data giving it another 1-2.
The Fiesta topped the new car sales charts with 3236 units sold. Ford’s Focus was 2nd with 3035 sales.
In 3rd place, but more than 500 units behind, was the Volkswagen Golf with 2586 sales. That was [...]


Relief at February sales

STRONG February new car sales have been boosted by the extension to the scrappage scheme say dealers.
The RMIF says the decision to extend the scheme into March, coupled with last year’s extra funds for the scheme, means sustained demand has benefited showroom traffic.
Scrappage sales accounted for more than 19 percent of sales in February, with [...]


February 2010 sales grow

SALES figures for February have been released and continue to show a scrappage scheme boost.
The market rose by 26.4 percent compared to 2009, with 68,686 new car sales.
Scrappage accounted for 19.6 percent - making February the 8th consecutive month of new car sales growth, said SMMT chief Paul Everitt.
As much of the increase is attributable [...]