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If you’re looking for a way to generate more income at your dealership (and let’s face it, who isn’t?), Armour Automotive has something to offer that could be music to your ears. The company is in the vanguard of technology and has a fantastic product that really could capture your customers’ imagination and drive additional [...]

You probably don’t want to think about it, but your happy and smiling customer who has just left your showroom in their shiny new car could well have an accident in it. The statistics say it’s very likely and could range from a 5mph shunt in the local Tesco car park to, worse, a high-speed road traffic accident. [...]

The internet is making consumers increasingly demanding… and it’s up to car dealers to meet that challenge. that’s according to Alex Rose, associate industry manager (automotive) for Google, who gave a fascinating insight into the workings of the international internet and software corporation at the Car Dealer Profit clinic. Rose, based at the company’s London [...]

WE’VE been privileged enough to visit a few car factories in our time – but most of them are extremely secretive. Stickers that cover up phone camera lenses and persistent guards are usually the norm – but not when we visited Kia’s factory in Slovakia. The Zilina site builds the new Sportage, as well as [...]

WE take a festive five minute break by looking back at some of our best feature issues in 2011. You could say the last 12 months has been Car Dealer’s best year yet – and we think you’d be right. Car Dealer was the first trade publication to break the news of Tesco entering the [...]

TO look back over the last 12 months at Car Dealer Magazine, we’ve summarised our year in just under three minutes. Enjoy!

Chevrolet Special Rising motoring artist Ian Cook – aka Popbang Colour – spares some of his time to paint our front cover. Cook’s masterpiece forms part of Issue 46′s Chevrolet special which includes a special road test of the Corvette and Volt, Camaro and Volt handbooks, an interview with Chevy’s managing director Mark Terry, and [...]

YOU’LL know by now the Bangers4BEN cars went to auction last week and raised a whopping sum of money for BEN. More than 15k was raised at the auction, and with sponsorship money included BEN will be getting a cheque to the amount of £25k! Auction firm Aston Barclay put the 26 cars through their [...]

NEW car registrations were  2.6 per cent up in Otober, the latest figures from the SMMT reveal. Registrations rose by 2.6 per cent in the month to 134,944 units, the second increase in three months. ‘October’s new car market rose 2.6 per cent on last year – a positive result despite the uncertain economic climate,’ [...]

OVERALL this 911 is a good ‘un – nothing more serious than cosmetic problems really, a good find. Those were the words of Porsche GB mechanic Darren Pannell who today gave our 911 for 2011 motor the once over. Prior to some tweakage, Porsche wanted to subject our car to one of its 111-point checks [...]

I’M sat at the side of a motorway, being battered by large lorries carrying bananas, and Baggott is pacing up and down. What has my life come to? This is day one of our four-day long excursion to the home of Ferrari all for the charity BEN in £500 bangers, and it hasn’t really begun [...]

NEW car registrations were 0.8 per cent down in September, the latest figures from the SMMT reveal. The registrations are ‘stable’ and are ‘in line with expectations’. The SMMT boss has even fronted a video talking about the September figures – see below. 332,476 new cars were registered, just 0.8 per cent down on last [...]

WHAT with all of the adverts and the posters, you probably know by now that Ford of Britain is 100 years old. So what you’re probably thinking? There always seems to be some kind of celebration for something in the UK. 60 years of that, 125 years of this, and one year on since the [...]

FORD has wowed Frankfurt Motor Show-goers by unveiling an estate version of its new Focus ST model. The car offers the ST driver more space and practicality while still delivering the hatchback ST’s lightening performance courtesy of a 2.0-litre EcoBoost engine. Meanwhile the hatchback was also unveiled and remained largely unchanged from the concept car [...]

FORD has officially unveiled its Evos concept – and you should expect its deisgn to appear on a Ford model soon. Although the Evos is a concept, Ford revealed that design elements of the Evos will be appearing on a new Ford model in the next four months. ‘The Evos is a simplification of kinetic [...]

How many Volvo XC70 owners actually realise just what their cars are capable of? At the launch of the refreshed model in Sweden, Volvo let us try what many buyers never will – tackle some seriously rough off roading. Seen by many as simply a jacked-up version of the V70, Volvo was keen to demonstrate [...]

THE latest issue of Car Dealer will be arriving next week – but’s what’s in it? This video should wet your appetite. Here’s what’s inside Issue 40: The EV Life We’ve been living with the Nissan Leaf and the Peugeot iOn for a week to experience this growing type of car. Profit Clinic The full [...]

ISSUE 36′s redesign was no flash in the pan! This month Car Dealer Magazine is back looking better than ever. Subscribers will get their copies from Monday, March 14. Find out how to subscribe at the bottom of this page by joining Car Dealer Club. Or you can order a single issue and you’ll be [...]

SHOULD car dealers be using social media sites like Twitter and Facebook to promote their business? It’s a question many dealers – both large and small – are asking themselves up and down the country. Already many have jumped in and set up social media pages, but they’re in the minority. We wanted to find [...]

THIS week 11 of the cars that took part in Bangers4BEN 3 were sold at BCA Blackbushe – and here’s the video! The event in aid of motor industry charity BEN saw teams from all walks of the motor industry drive from Dover to Monaco and back. As well as raising sponsorship money the teams [...]