NEWS

No spring break for firms

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 [...]

	Ford Fiesta top in EU
FORD’S Fiesta continues its market leading sales position by becoming Europe’s best-seller, too! March sales saw it take the slot from the Volkswagen Golf by a hefty 11,785 units. It’s also thus now ahead in the year-to-date sales, too – 140,496, compared to the Golf’s 135,048. This performance was aided by a near-26 percent jump [...]

	Scrappage hangover
SCRAPPAGE incentives drawing to a close could put the car market recovery at risk reports JATO Dynamics. The intelligence firm points to the German car market as evidence of this. Since the end of scrappage scheme, German sales are down 29.8 percent – and the market has AGAIN been outsold by Italy… … which still [...]

	VIDEO Golf R fastest VW
VOLKSWAGEN has got us all excited here at Car Dealer Magazine, by sending us a video of its new R range. It shows off both the 265PS Scirocco R and 270PS Golf R, going fittingly flat-out. Fitting particularly for the Golf – at just 5.7 seconds to 62mph, it’s the fastest-accelerating Volkswagen EVER! 4MOTION all-wheel-drive [...]

	VW’s new model fest
VOLKSWAGEN certainly has been busy, with a whole host of exciting new models here at Frankfurt. The real headline-grabber is the 39g/km CO2 L1 Concept… a model that can average 189mpg! It’s a 380kg aluminium and carbonfibre special, similar in length to a VW Fox, but only as high as a Lamborghini Murcielago. It seats [...]

		Golf 6 debuts at auction
		VOLKSWAGEN’S latest Golf 6 model has hit the car auction floors for the first time, at Manheim Leicester. The Volkswagen closed sale saw a good result for the new family hatchback, too: it made 90 percent of list. More than 20 early Golf 6 were sold, from a lot of over 350 Volkswagens. Every one [...]
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		Fiesta tops EU pile!
		FORD’S Fiesta has just taken the overall European sales number one slot from the Volkswagen Golf. A massive March sales increase of over 15 per cent has seen the Ford supermini conquer in an otherwise depressed market. First quarter European sales are down by 16.9 percent, reports JATO Dynamics, as the recession bites further into [...]
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		Golf GTI: Order now
		ORDER books have opened for the sixth generation of Volkswagen’s Golf GTI hot hatch. It will be launched on May 22, in both three and five-door guise, for which Volkswagen car dealers can now take orders. The new model does not radically change the format of the Golf GTI. It continues to use a 2.0-litre [...]
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