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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 [...]

FORD may be top new car seller in the UK but it holds 2nd place to Hyundai in the scrappage league. To date, Hyundai has sold 36,647 new cars under the scrap scheme. This compares with Ford’s 35,564 total – and the two brands are way ahead of the 3rd-placed manufacturer, Toyota. The Japanese firm [...]

FORD once again took the top 2 sales slots in the UK new car sales chart with the Fiesta top dog. It was followed up by the Ford Focus, continuing a Ford 1-2 trend. Other brands had reason to celebrate too, though. Hyundai came in 8th with its scrappage-smash-hit i10, while the Audi A3 was [...]

COULD this be the next Ford Capri? Car Dealer Magazine certainly hopes these sketches lead the way! The iconic car has been given a fresh new look for 2010 with a dramatic rear design, deep alloy wheels and square headlights. Unfortunately it’s not an official Ford mock-up but was penned by car design student Brad [...]

IT seems helping doctors in the snow wasn’t an unusual event with another car dealer telling us how it came to the rescue. Brunel Ford, in Weston, stepped in to assist medical staff during the heavy snow last week which brought the town to a standstill. Weston General Hospital sent out an emergency plea for [...]

FORD has pulled the covers off the all-new Ford Focus which will go on sale in Europe in early 2011. The new car is being billed as a true world model and will form the basis of 10 unique versions. Ford says total sales of the new C-car platform that underpins the new Ford Focus [...]

FORD continues to dominate new car sales in the UK by once again topping the SMMT best seller list. The 2009 performance makes it the 33rd successive year Ford has been Britain’s number 1. 1 in 6 new cars sold last year was a Ford, giving the blue oval 17 percent of the market. Indeed, [...]

FORD Fiesta buyers have voted the supermini best car of 2009 by buying it in greater numbers than any other new car. SMMT figures show the Fiesta is way ahead of the rest, with 117,296 sales. Bosses at Ford are celebrating further too, as the Focus came out in 2nd place overall in the new [...]

CAP has ranked the UK’s top used market stars of the past 10 years – with Ford topping the overall list. The Ford Focus is CAP’s official Used Car of the Decade. Judges included many used market experts. They voted unanimously to give the overall prize to the Ford Focus, thanks to it setting ‘new [...]

ARNOLD Clark has completed a big-money takeover of Cumbria’s GK Group of car dealers, it has just been announced. Trading under the new name for GK Group has already begun. In even better news for the 4-outlet car dealer group, chairman Sir Arnold Clark promised there are to be NO job losses resulting from the [...]

FORD is hoping its new 76mpg Fiesta Econetic Van can help it to 25 percent of the small van sector. The new eco model is now on sale, costing from £11,635. Emitting a tiny 98g/km of CO2, it’s one of the greenest vans in the world, and will help provide big fuel savings to fleets. [...]

FORD once again topped the November new car sales chart with the Fiesta easily beating the next-best. Which, as luck would have it, was also a Ford – the Focus! The November performance marks the 9th month in 2009 that the Fiesta has topped the charts. Total Fiesta sales stand at 109,420. Again, the Focus [...]

ENGLISH Ford in Poole has a scrappage deal waiting for a driver who crashed right outside its premises! The Ford main dealer’s security barriers luckily ensured only 1 car will be scrapped – the driver’s classic Renault Clio 16v. What’s more, in an example of PR brilliance, the car dealer has just released images of [...]

SMMT president Joe Greenwell was chief speaker to 800 guests at the recent SMMT Annual Dinner. He spoke of an extraordinary year. Despite the recession, he said, much has been learned. The industry has collaborated successfully to get wide-ranging support. The best example of this is the scrappage scheme, which has been a resounding success [...]

FORD will again raise its new car list prices by an average of 2.7% from December, blaming the weak pound. The move by the UK’s largest car maker is expected to signal a round of price increases from rival makers, too. Once again, Ford is blaming the weak Pound – it’s devalued by 30 percent [...]

FORD continues to lead the UK scrappage sales chart and has just recorded its 30,000th scrappage sale. Dave Quick bought a Ford Transit van, meaning Ford has now sold 1100 CVs through scrappage. Hendy Ford sales manager David Graham said ‘Dave Quick is one of a number of business people trading up to new Ford [...]

FORD is launching an initiative that will help car dealers boost aftersales business from older-car owners. Blue oval dealers can now offer a special £99 Ford Value Service, to owners of car 3 years old or more. As an added bonus, the maker is also including a year’s European breakdown recover package, from Ford Assistance, [...]

FORD has ALREADY sold 100,000 new Fiestas so far this year – with 2 months of 2009 still to go. October’s sales figures have seen the blue oval supermini become the first car to reach the 6-figure mark. Nigel Sharp, Ford Britain MD, said ‘notching up over 100,000 sales this year is a significant milestone [...]

NEW car sales rises are being driven by small cars, reveals latest registration data from the SMMT. Supermini sales are up 47.9 percent in October – and city car sales are up an incredible 200 percent! This has seen 7 out of the top 10 best-sellers being superminis.  It also means there are some surprises. [...]

TOYOTA is bringing the spirit of the Ford Capri back to life with this dramatic FT-86 Toyota Celica successor. The rear-wheel-drive coupe has certainly grabbed the headlines here at the firm’s stand in Tokyo. That’s because it looks utterly superb. All creases, curves and angles, there really is no missing it. Making it all the [...]