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BCA is to amaze car auction goers next week when it auctions off a classic Ford Cortina at Blackbushe. The car is a real star too, as it is the one off the BBC Culture Show TV programme. It’s starring as part of the Lex Autolease sale to be held on Monday. BCA tells us [...]

BCA Nottingham last week recorded a £3.6 million prestige car auction spend in just a few hours of trading. This has led BCA director Tony Gannon to declare the recession a thing of the past – supported by the UK’s official emergence from recession after 18 months. The Top Car auction at Nottingham generated the [...]

MANHEIM has held its first car auction at its new Bruntingthorpe super centre with a sale of 365 cars. The Lombard Vehicle Management sale made over £3.5 million and boasted an 80 percent conversion rate. Almost 300 buyers attended the old US Airforce base in Leicestershire, reports Manheim MD Mike Pilkington, with lots more taking [...]

MANHEIM reports its Simulcast online auction service rocketed 85 percent and sold 25,000 cars in 2009. This came on the back of a 94 percent growth in car trade buyer log-ins, which saw the 100,000-mark broken. Total worth of these cars sold online? £200 million. Proof, said MD Mike Pilkington, that ‘the investment in Simulcast [...]