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#911for2011 is sold!

The Porsche 911 we traded our way up to from nothing has been sold, and we’ve handed over a whopping £11,995 to BEN. JAMES BAGGOTT reports It seems an awfully long time ago I was haggling with two used car dealers on my drive over an Audi A3, sold for spares and repairs on ebay. [...]

Retweet comp celebrates free iPad App

TO celebrate the launch of our new FREE iPad App – we’re holding a Twitter retweet competition. By retweeting this post you’ll be in with your chance of winning this fantastic Autoglym Valet Case packed full of car cleaning goodies worth £46. We’ll draw the winner out of a hat at random on May 20 [...]

New servers now in place to boost our FREE iPad App

CAR DEALER has invested in new dedicated servers to cope with the demand for its popular new iPad App. Following the launch of our digital edition for the iPad last Friday, demand on the existing servers holding the digital editions has been so high that it has struggled to cope. In the first two days [...]

Big Mike: Clocks don’t just go forward in spring!

LIKE most of those involved in the previously cherished motor carriage relocation industry, I am rather looking forward to spring this year. It may have been one of the milder winters of the past few years, but for some reason I’ve also found it one of the darkest. Whether there’s a specific reason for that, [...]

Car Dealer launches FREE iPad App

CAR Dealer Magazine is now available on the iPad – and the good news is it’s free to download and subscribe to! Launched today in the iTunes Store, the iPad edition is a digital recreation of our award winning printed magazine. Produced in conjunction with App Creatives, the iPad edition offers users of Apple’s tablet [...]



To Sunderland... and what a pleasure it was!  

To Sunderland… and what a pleasure it was!

 

AS you may have read, we recently took delivery of a new long-termer, a Kia Rio, here at Car Dealer HQ. And after editor James had had his fun in the car, it was my turn to take it for a spin. Well, more of a long haul actually. My mission was to drive from [...]

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Live Blog: Deadline week for Issue 50  

Live Blog: Deadline week for Issue 50

 

As if deadline week wasn’t bad enough, the editor has decided to run a live blog of the highs and lows of putting Issue 50 of Car Dealer together. Follow this post for his updates as and when he can fit them in. FRIDAY 11.03: Back in the office. Have a serious headache (self inflicted). [...]

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Big Mike: The cool car I managed to find for my daughter  

Big Mike: The cool car I managed to find for my daughter

 

Well, I guess it had to happen sometime. First it was the school disco, then the regular boyfriend. But now the absolute worst has happened. Big Mike’s favourite female has passed her driving test, yet it only seems like a year or so since I stopped changing her nappies (something my first wife, conveniently, never [...]

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New arrival: How to have fun in a Kia Rio  

New arrival: How to have fun in a Kia Rio

 

GREAT drives come in many forms and I’ve had my fair share of a few. However, I never thought I’d be saying it about a run in a Kia Rio. But, last week, I had a drive across the South Downs that put a whopping grin on my face – and it was all thanks [...]

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Blog: Nissan Juke-R drive  

Blog: Nissan Juke-R drive

 

I must admit if I had a nice long drive in front of my house, like Lord March, I wouldn’t get much work done. The temptation to hoon up and down and scare the milkman in anything with an engine would just be too much to ignore. Thankfully, I don’t have that problem – so [...]

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#911for2011: Deposit taken!  

#911for2011: Deposit taken!

 

So it may just have happened – today I received the news one lucky buyer had placed a deposit on our Porsche 911! It was just by chance when we were checking some facts for the latest issue’s update that we stumbled across the news on 911Virgin‘s website. There in big bold letters slashed across the [...]

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#911for2011: Finally our Porsche goes up for sale  

#911for2011: Finally our Porsche goes up for sale

 

FINALLY – after nearly two years of hard work – our Porsche 911 is up for sale in aid of charity BEN. For those of you who’ve been following the quest, apologies, but here’s a quick recap: We started with nothing, traded up 13 used cars with the help of the industry and finally managed [...]

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Blog: Car industry points to an economy on the move  

Blog: Car industry points to an economy on the move

 

I’m starting to hear some positive things on the car industry grape vine which might suggest the economy isn’t as bad as we all feared. Twice now this week I’ve heard from dealers that new car sales are bucking the trend, especially for the new 12-plate. The first one that caught my attention was from [...]

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#911 for 2011 latest  

#911 for 2011 latest

 

OK, I know how this looks. It looks like I’ve been enjoying a Porsche 911 for three months. And you’d be right – I have. But during that time our 911 for 2011 motor has been having some work carried out in an attempt to make it even more saleable. For those of you that need one, [...]

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Blog: It's that time again - Car Dealer Power  

Blog: It’s that time again – Car Dealer Power

 

IT’S THAT time again when we ask for your help. Last year Car Dealer Power rattled quite a few cages in the automotive industry. Your responses to our survey meant some manufacturers didn’t end up where they wanted to in our list of the best car makers to represent. In fact a couple even took it [...]

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Car Dealer Power 2012 launches  

Car Dealer Power 2012 launches

 

OUR SURVEY which puts you in the driving seat is back – and this year it’s bigger and better than ever! Car Dealer Power are the only awards voted for by the people who matter most – you, the dealers – and this year we’re giving you the chance to celebrate even more of the very [...]

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First drive: Skoda Citigo five-door  

First drive: Skoda Citigo five-door

 

CAR Dealer got an early drive of the new Skoda Citigo five-door on Friday – three weeks before its Geneva Motor Show debut. You won’t be surprised to hear it’s Skoda’s version of the VW Up and completes the Volkswagen Group’s assault on the A-segment market. And when it hits dealers on June 1, customers [...]

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Big Mike: The sale that showed every dog has its day  

Big Mike: The sale that showed every dog has its day

 

Landmarks… we’ve all had them. Cars that have sat around on our lots long enough for them to almost become classics. It’s all too easy to get disillusioned with them, too – you take them in px, price them above the stand-in value and slowly watch your profit erode away into a loss as the [...]

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Big Mike: Winning cars will persuade the punter  

Big Mike: Winning cars will persuade the punter

 

Like most people, I remember my first car well. It was a 1964 Ford Cortina, and it was finished in red. On its own fairly unspectacular, an icon of bread and butter British motoring, albeit one with pretty ‘ban-the-bomb’ taillights. But there was a very specific reason I bought the Cortina, and even more of [...]

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Big Mike: A few tips (not) worth taking on board  

Big Mike: A few tips (not) worth taking on board

 

LAST month, you may recall that I had a bit of a pop at lazy motoring journalists, who regularly dispense pearls of misplaced wisdom disguised as used car buying advice. Alas, I was then contacted by a mo-jo who I know quite well, who had a bit of a grizzle back at me because he [...]

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Car Dealer launches Lead Generation conference  

Car Dealer launches Lead Generation conference

 

CAR DEALER is holding a special Lead Generation event for dealers on May 18 – and it’s free to attend! There are a number of places open to suppliers to the motor trade to be one of the featured speakers. And we’re offering dealers the chance to register for a free place at the event [...]

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My Confession: 'Full tour' was caught on camera  

My Confession: ‘Full tour’ was caught on camera

 

I am a salesman at a large franchised dealership. as you can imagine, my days are spent trying to look busy for the dealer principal and chatting up the receptionist. I used to ‘do quite well’ with the girls at the dealership, so when we had a temp to cover holidays, I set about getting [...]

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BLOG: Seize the opportunity of social media like Skoda  

BLOG: Seize the opportunity of social media like Skoda

 

YESTERDAY I witnessed first hand some amazing use of social media – and it made me realise the opportunities in the virtual world are endless. Let me explain. Due to a perfect storm of events, yesterday I was left without a car to use. As you can imagine this is rather inconvenient for a petrol [...]

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#B4B12: Join us to help two charities  

#B4B12: Join us to help two charities

 

It feels like only a few days since a knackered Batch and I were stuck in a lift at the end of the first day of Bangers4BEN 2011. But today we had to put that horrible memory behind us as we had our first meeting to plan for 2012’s event with BEN. This year, B4B [...]

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Blog: People on our cover for the first time  

Blog: People on our cover for the first time

 

BATCH hates it when I get ‘an idea’. It normally involves lots of emails, stress, and a headache. And this month’s cover story was the recipe for the perfect migraine-inducing storm. As a regular reader of Car Dealer you’ve probably guessed we like to do things a little differently. So when I floated the idea [...]

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