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FORD Granada driver Derek Miller has won a £10k makeover for the car he’s owned for over 2 decades.
All Ford dealers ran the competition that was tied in with a free Visual Health Check earlier in the year.
The ‘Spring into Summer’ offered all entrants the opportunity to won a makeover for their motor – [...]

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 in [...]

FORD has REGAINED its number one in the UK car sales chart, new figures from the SMMT confirm.
According to figures released last week by the SMMT, Ford topped the July sales chart with 18,442 registrations and totaled 176,792 cars registered this year.
July also showed the company increasing its retail car market share to 12.1 [...]

VOLVO is now officially owned by Chinese giant Geely following the acquisition of a 100 percent stake from Ford.
The completion of the deal has just been announced in a London ceremony.
Volkswagen Group of America cheif exec Stefan Jacoby will take over the help as president and CEO of Volvo Cars. He replaces Brit Stephen [...]

FORD has revealed it cut short-cycle rental business in June in order to improve the brand’s residual values.
This tallies with the consolidation of Ford sales, that has seen the previous best-selling Fiesta slip to third place in the UK sales charts.
However, thanks to early-year success, the Fiesta remains the UK’s best seller year-to-date, with its [...]

RENAULT is the big winner in European car sales, but the market overall is down by more than 8 percent.
JATO Dynamics blames poor sales in Germany, which means the year-to-date EU market improvement has fallen to below 3 percent.
The UK market was up, though, and Spain offered encouragement by bucking the recession in growing [...]

VERTU has acquired Ford and Mazda dealers in Scotland through the purchase of Shields Automobiles assets.
The purchase of the dual car dealers in Glasgow and Hamilton is expected to take place on 30 June.
The properties will be leasehold, with maximum consideration payable of £2.5m and this will be settled in cash from existing resources. [...]

SMMT figures show May new car sales rose by 13.5 percent but the SMMT expects the market to now start declining.
The May rise is the 11th successive one and saw the Ford Focus displace the Fiesta as the UK’s top car.
However, now the scrappage boost has ended, the SMMT is predicting a modest decline in [...]

EUROPEAN car sales fell 6.7 percent in April as scrappage schemes ended across many nations.
Germany’s scrappage scheme ended a while back – Italy’s now has too, meaning both markets have actually started falling.
After its recent success, JATO Dynamics says it is Ford that’s been hit. Sales of the blue oval have not only fallen in [...]

FORD says 15 percent of car owners admit to putting off car services - or even skip them completely - to save money.
Younger drivers are the worst of all, adds the blue oval.
Even worse, 1 in 5 UK drivers has no breakdown cover to cover them for any subsequent breakdowns – and for younger drivers, [...]