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DEVELOPMENTS with our new 911 for 2011 purchase are gathering pace quicker than we ever expected. We’ve only had the seven-seat C4 Picasso for a few weeks, but now the car has a new set of boots courtesy of Continental, and ably fitted by National tyres. But we need to rewind time a little to [...]

TO drum up even more interest in the hotly-anticpated DS4, Citroen has a six-part online series of films. Called ‘Citroen DS4: Production Secrets’, the weekly six-part online series of documentaries will be shown on the new Citroen DS4 website, as well as on YouTube and Facebook, revealing secrets from the design and production of the new [...]

The CLK has gone and we’ve invested our pot into the next step on our ladder First things first. We made a slight accounting error last month which I’ll blame on doing sums on deadline. Our current total doesn’t currently reside at £9,418, it’s in fact the slightly lower figure of £8,970. The cash counting [...]

CITROEN has announced the dealers charged with the task of selling the firm’s full-electric city car, the Citroen C-ZERO. The 11 dealers that make up the ‘Citroen Electric Vehicle Specialist Dealer Network’ have been selected to provide extensive geographical coverage of the UK and are typically located in larger cities and areas which have charging [...]

CITROEN has announced its elected Tom Lander to the role of chairman of the firm’s national dealer council. The position is a key one within the Citroen network as it involves important liaison duties between the company and its dealers. After seven years as vice-chairman, and with more than 21 years in the franchise, Lander [...]

THREE new vehicles can now enter London’s congestion charge zone free of charge it has been announced today. With CO2 emissions of just 99g/km, Citroën’s DS3 DStyle 99g and C3 Airdream+ already qualify for free VED, and are now eligible for the new greener vehicle 100 per cent discount (GVD) – potentially saving London drivers [...]

CITROEN UK boss Linda Jackson remains confident about 2010 and beyond, despite falling new car sales. Speaking to Car Dealer exclusively at the SMMT annual dinner last night, the French firm’s MD said her firm had the ‘right cars’ for the market. ‘The situation is changing on a weekly basis,’ she told us. ‘The end [...]

Winner: Citroen.co.uk Produced by: Dagobert Highly commended: Audi.co.uk Highly commended: LandRover.com JUST because they’ve got a budget the size of a small country to produce their website, it doesn’t mean they all get it right. Take a look at some of the websites for the biggest selling brands in the UK and you’ll find countless lessons [...]

Winner: Citroen C3 ‘Wash Me If You Can’ Produced by: The H Agency Highly commended: Nissan Juke microsite Highly commended: Vee24.com THE Special Achievement of the Year Eward is handed to a website, web-based product or digital project connected to the motor trade that judges feel has achieved something remarkable. This year the winner was [...]

CITROEN has revealed the production ready look of its new DS4 which it hopes will take on Audi’s A3 Sportback. The 5-door ‘crossover coupe’ family hatch is the latest variant in the ‘posh Citroen’ DS range. It will be shown in public for the first time at this month’s Paris Motor Show, prior to arriving [...]

CITROEN car dealers are preparing for a flurry of interest following confirmed prices for the DS3 Racing. The MINI Cooper S rival will cost £23,100 when it goes on sale next month. UK stocks are, however, limited to just 200 cars! The idea is to provide a production car base for next year’s Citroen DS3 [...]

CAR Dealer Magazine has heard of some strange part exchanges but even we are amazed by this one. Motorhome dealer Romahome Centre Southampton recently swapped a Citroen-based motorhome for… A four-seat airplane! Private pilot Bob Woolford drove a hard bargain, and agreed on a deal for the motorhome – on the condition Romahome took in [...]

BCA last month held a £3 million car auction sale for Citroen that sold 400 cars in a 100% conversion… …despite car dealers kicking not a single wheel of any car in the auction! That’s because it was a ‘virtual’ auction, conducted entirely online using a big digital screen. Logistically, the 50 attending Citroen car [...]

CITROEN has appointed Charles Peugeot as sales director for the UK cars division following CV success. Under his watch, Citroen commercial vehicle sales rose by nearly 25 percent. Now, he’s taking over the top sales job in Citroen UK, a promotion that he will take on from 1 August. ‘Citroen has changed dramatically in recent [...]

CITROEN UK has replaced departing-for-Mercedes MD Gary Savage with in-house finance whiz Linda Jackson. Jackson joins from Citroen France, where she was finance director – a role she was promoted to after being finance controller for Citroen UK. She’s also been managing director of MG Rover Group in France, as well as European sales financial [...]

MERCEDES is the latest firm to have a UK boardroom reshuffle with the appointment of Gary Savage as MD. He will take over from the retiring Dermot Kelly at the end of the month. Coming from the MD role at Citroen UK, Savage is a familiar face in the industry. He has also been a [...]

BCA held its biggest ever sale for Citroen last week – and scored a 100 percent total sales record! All 409 cars offered were successfully bid for, in an auction that generated a total of £3.26 million. 41 Citroen Approved dealers pushed the overall CAP Clean return up to 102.3 percent – and it was [...]

HARTWELL has taken on 3 new managers in an effort to drive sales at its new Nissan and Citroen dealerships. The group have also announced a new customer-focused business strategy at the Scunthorpe car dealers. This is aimed at reintroducing the Nissan and Citroen brand, which have been without representation in the area since 2006. [...]

MINI has been such a phenomenal success for BMW, many carmakers have looked on enviously. Particularly those whose modern-times sales staples have been smaller cars. Take Citroen. It sells no end of city cars and superminis, but are they able to command Mini-like premiums? Alas not. Enter, then, the DS3. A new range created by Citroen to [...]

GENEVA marks a world debut for Citroen – but most people have not noticed the new car is now out! A spokesman admitted the unveiling of the production C-Zero has not seen the crowds flocking. ‘People are already familiar with the Mitsubishi i-MiEV it’s based on,’ a spokesman told Car Dealer Magazine. ‘We’re quite open [...]