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I have on my lot at the moment a very nice, and extremely good value (even if I do say so myself), example of the convertible BMW Z3, 95,000 miles, a full service history from an independent sports car specialist and in generally good condition. The car is a 1999 T-reg, so is just shy [...]

Our roads are full of all sorts of cars. Big ones, small ones, sports ones, fast, slow – you name it, they’re there. But over the past decade we’ve seen a new breed of car seep into the mainstream – the eco car. They’ve been selling well, but the way they’re sold is going to have [...]

THIS guest blog post was written by Chris Lunn, marketing and online manager at Hartwell. You can follow Hartwell on Twitter or join their Facebook page here. AT Hartwell, we were recently using Google Trends data to learn more about the state of the automotive industry online, and came across some fascinating facts that we [...]

So, after months of speculation, it has happened. Tesco is taking us on and I, for one, am not worried in the slightest. The talk of Tesco bringing about a revolution in the used car world is nonsense. Can anyone remember Virgin Cars? Do Chevrolet still sell from Halfords? No. This business is unique. Tesco [...]

It’s time for an eight-year relationship to end. And I need some help cutting the chord. You see I’ve been driving a Lotus Elise around this month and I’ve learned that they’re everything I’d hoped they would be. So I have to have one. In all seriousness – all cars should be like the Lotus. [...]

I never knew it, but apparently I’m sick. ‘Sick’, that is, as in ‘down with the kids’, ‘happening’ or ‘groovy’, not chronically poorly. Well, perhaps not groovy, as the word itself derives from a different era, but whichever way you look at it, Big Mike is alot cooler than he ever could have imagined. Why’s [...]

This month, please allow me to be serious for once, as I’m about to let you into a secret… Okay, so it may be a bit difficult to take a bloke seriously when he has a 50-inch waistline, a flat cap and a pet Rottweiler that answers to the name of Fluffy, but something’s about to happen [...]

It soon became clear that our Citroen wasn’t going anywhere fast, so we traded it on, reports James Baggott I always knew it to be the case but now, having traded a few, I’ve had a glimpse as to just how hard it must be selling second-hand cars for a living. The stress of dealing [...]

EVER since they began in 1927, Volvo has been fascinated in keeping drivers safe in their cars. But, recently, Volvo has been going a little mad – and all with the help of its tuning arm. Based just outside of Gothenburg, Polestar resides in an unassuming brick-built factory with only a handful of Volvos parked [...]

YOU’D think a Volvo dealership would look the same wherever you went regardless of country. Wrong. On Monday, we visited Brabil, a Volvo dealership on the outskirts of Gothenburg which, apart from the Volvo badge bolted to the brickwork, couldn’t be more unlike any Volvo showroom in the UK. Let me tell you why… For [...]

YOU’LL probably know by now that at Car Dealer Magazine, we like to do things a little differently. Like features. We love to do mad features – and what we’re doing for Issue 41 is almost certainly up there in terms of mileage and for being just a little bit hair-brained. Next week we’re heading [...]

TODAY Car Dealer was treated to a very special tour of the Wheeler Dealer inner sanctum. Tucked away on a farm in Buckinghamshire, Mike Brewer showed off the cars from the latest series. Brewer has just got back from six weeks in America where he’s bought a varied collection of metal for Edd China to [...]

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It’s the last thing you want to see on a car launch, but sadly they all too often appear. What am I talking about? Plod of course. News that a car launch has rocked up in town travels around the local area quicker than a bout of E Coli. Policemen are told to position themselves [...]

CAR Dealer took the Kia Sportage for a long drive from the office on the south coast to Wales – and here’s what happened. We’ve written many words about the Sportage before. Here for instance. And here. And here. Even here. That’s because it’s a firm favourite with the Car Dealer office. We strongly believe the [...]

If you see James Batchelor can you kick him for me. Thanks. He was the man behind last month’s 911 for 2011 update and looking back over the copy I can see why we’re in the state we’re in now. ‘Unusually for us, things are going quite smoothly,’ were the fateful words our young hack started [...]

EVERYONE loves a Fast Ford and in the next issue of Car Dealer we’ve put four legends to the test. To mark the Blue Oval’s centenary in the UK we decided to delve into Ford’s heritage collection and grab the keys to some incredible cars. We were given access to the Ford Technical Centre at [...]

UNUSUALLY for us, things are going quite smoothly with our 911 for 2011 challenge. When we signed off last month we had just taken delivery of a Citroen C4 Grand Picasso VTR+ with the economical 1.6-litre diesel engine. Marc Raven, Citroen’s communications boss, had sourced the car for us, and we planned to turn it around [...]

CAR Dealer will be arriving on your desks today, packed full of exclusive features, interviews, and reviews. From an interview and analysis on Tesco selling used cars, to the low-down on this month’s most anticipated cars, Issue 38 is one of our biggest issues! If you’re not already a subscriber, watch the video to see [...]

I think the recent signing of legal whizz Lucy is a great coup for Car Dealer. As proven in Big Mike’s column last month, we are frequently bombarded with legal challenges as a result of selling cars. This is nothing new – cars are mechanical items and while you rarely see the rust or engine [...]