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HARRATTS has announced it has received planning permission to build a new showroom and headquarters. The family owned and run motor group which operates 14 dealerships across Yorkshire, confirmed that the new development at Calder Park in Wakefield would represent an investment of £3m and create 25 new jobs. Harratts, which has consistently grown in [...]

DEALER group Marshall’s latest acquisition of a Honda business in Harrogate has made the group Honda’s largest partner. The family-owned dealer group completed its acquisition of the business today from Pendragon Plc for an undisclosed sum. Marshall has represented Honda for 19 years and this new addition brings the group’s total number of Honda businesses [...]

IT’s a case of ‘it runs in the family’ for a Honda dealership based in Hemel Hempstead. 23-year-old Alice Brayley has turned her back on a career in teaching to join her father’s Honda dealership business. Having washed cars from the age of twelve and worked as a receptionist in the school holidays during her [...]

HONDA could be considering adding more hybrids to its current model range says the firm’s MD, David Hodgetts. The Honda boss exclusively revealed to Car Dealer that the current four-door Civic hybrid hasn’t been a successful enough seller, so the firm might add the green technology to already popular models. ‘There is a possibility of [...]

HONDA UK managing director, Dave Hodgetts has revealed that the demise of the Civic Type-R is a ‘sign of the times’. Talking exclusively to Car Dealer, Hodgetts said not having a Type-R halo model in the current UK range was unfortunate, but was a sign of the current times we live in. ‘The Civic Type-R [...]

HONDA has launched a Facebook campaign to find Britain’s most talented ‘makers’. ‘Made in Britain’ aims to unearth the country’s highly-skilled crafters, builders, innovators and techno-gurus through a new Facebook campaign, which will offer outstanding creators ‘Development Awards’ worth up to £1k. More than 80 per cent of the Honda cars sold in the UK [...]

WHO said that older salesmen have to give up their job to their younger colleagues when they reach retirement age? One man who’s not saying that is Don Burgess. He’s a salesman at Brayley Honda Group in Hertfordshire where he’s worked for more than 12 years, and he’s just celebrated his 75th birthday! However, Burgess is [...]

A STUDENT has abandoned his university degree course favour of a career in the automotive sector as a vehicle technician. Doug Pullar, 20, has begun a three year apprenticeship at Brayley Honda in St Albans. Already working under the supervision of Brayley Honda’s senior technicians, Pullar will also attend the Honda Institute in Colnbrook for [...]

BCA has got its hands on rock star Justin Hawkins’ hybrid Honda and will auction it off tomorrow! Previously owned from new by the former lead singer of The Darkness, the 60-reg Honda CR-Z 1.5 IMA GT Hyrbid will go under the hammer at the firm’s Paddock Wood site. Finished in White Pearl and upholstered in [...]

Dealer group Chathams have announced a restructuring programme which brings about some big changes. The programme will see the Edinburgh-based dealer group parting company with Honda, and moving forward with Skoda. Effective from the end of November, Graeme P Chatham Ltd and Honda (UK) Ltd will go their separate ways – a partnership that has [...]

HONDA has justified its Jazz Hybrid to Car Dealer by saying it’s offering a real world solution, not a stats-chaser. The world’s first petrol-electric supermini has been criticised for its 104g/km CO2 emissions. While very impressive, they do not dip below the 100g/km barrier. Whereas conventional high-efficiency diesel superminis such as the VW Polo Bluemotion [...]

HONDA makes the most reliable budget small car for students heading off to university this week. Warranty Direct analysed its 50,000 live policies, and discovered the car least likely to break down in the sub-£3k price range is the Jazz. What’s more, if it DOES break down, it’s cheap to repair. Surprisingly, the Vauxhall Astra [...]

IN the words of a cigar-chomping A-teamer – don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? Well, I may of course be jumping the gun, but after two days of frantic phone calls and emails our plan to transform our hippy-coloured Honda Civic into something far cooler certainly does seem to be getting [...]

HONDA Brayley St Albans has just appointed 27 year old Mark Corr as one of the UK’s youngest sales managers. This latest promotion by the Hatfield Road car dealer marks quite a career path for Corr: 9 years ago, he was cutting the car dealer’s grass! He started aged 18 as site boy at the [...]

HONDA will show a hybrid version of the 5 door Jazz supermini at next months’ Paris Motor Show. This will see it become the first hybrid petrol-electric supermini in the world – and it’s one that will soon come to market. Honda will sell the Jazz Hybrid in the UK from early 2011. The speed [...]

IT WAS going to happen all along. Like the £10 gallon is looming and excessive CO2 taxation is in full swing, city cars are about to become even more offensively eco-friendly and therefore derided. Honda has announced details of a new hybrid Jazz. All we really need to know is that it’s got most of [...]

BRAYLEY Honda has launched a unique hunt to find a savvy young entrepreneur for its used car site. Junction 25 Car Sales is a wholly owned subsidiary of Brayley Honda – but is currently without an operations manager. Owner Paul Brayley is thus on the lookout for an enterprising North London youngster to work with [...]

ONE of THE coolest cars of the late 1980s was Honda’s ballistic CR-X. Short, squat and stubby, it was a road-going missile when fitted with the mesmerising 1.6-litre VTEC engine, famed stratospheric rev limit ‘n all. This model, more than any other, cemented the VTEC legend in Honda’s history. Now, the brand is hoping to [...]

HONDA has introduced a MUGEN performance tuning parts programme to 8 of its UK dealer network. The selected car dealers will sell official MUGEN tuning parts, accessories and merchandise. Colin Whittamore, from MUGEN Euro, said: ‘Although MUGEN has been in Japan for over 35 years, we are a relatively new company to the UK market, [...]

HONDA’S Civic is a stalwart of the innovative Japanese company’s model range – but even so, it’s still surprising to remember what a long-runner it is. Would you believe, it’s actually older than the Volkswagen Golf? Honda launched it back in 1972, making it the second-oldest Japanese car model line still running. Mind you, if [...]