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JCT600 has invested £700k in its Bradford Mini dealership, doubling showroom size to cope with customer demand. The dealership has been redesigned to incorporate a reflective black interior with orange and lime green accent walls and furniture, offering a distinctive showroom synonymous with the Mini brand. The showroom has also been expanded to showcase twice [...]

FAMILY-owned JCT600 is celebrating a very special landmark – 50 years of selling Vauxhalls. The JCT600 group has 48 dealerships and represents 21 brands from Aston Martin to Volkswagen to in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and the North East. But it’s with Vauxhall the firm is celebrating with for they first starting selling the brand in [...]

DEALER group JCT600 has got a very special car up for sale – the last ever Aston Martin Vanquish S to be built. What’s more, the Leeds-based dealership is selling the last ever car to be made at the maker’s now-defunct Newport Pagnell production line – for £15,000 more than it cost new! The 6,000-mile [...]

DEALER group JCT600 has transformed a former Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep showroom into a used site. The ‘PriceRight’ dealership is based at Rawdon and has taken several months of redevelopment to get ready. Representing a £750,000 investment by JCT600, the outlet is one of Yorkshire’s most prominent used car dealerships, with some 40,000 vehicles passing [...]

JCT600 has started work on a £750k rebuild of its iconic Rawdon Roundabout site in West Yorkshire. Known as the ‘JCT roundabout’, the entire 20 year old site is being demolished and reconstructed. The rebuilt site will launch the new PriceRight concept, which the firm describes as a standalone outlet-style concept ‘designed in response to [...]

CAR buyers are more prepared than ever to travel longer distances to source the best deal on a new car. Almost 1 in 3 customers now travel MORE than 50 miles to puck up their new motor. Car dealer JCT600 carried out the research, and says the longer travel distances are almost entirely down to [...]

JCT600 Bradford directors are to climb Britain’s highest mountain later this month to raise money for a local charity. 15 directors will climb all 1344m of Ben Nevis on 24 May, with chief exec John Tordoff leading the challenge. It’s in support of the Bradford Burns Unit, as 2010 is the 25th anniversary of the [...]

JCT600 is once again expanding and says the latest round of growth has created 20 new car dealer job vacancies. The car dealer has a problem though, because it is struggling to fill the posts quickly enough! ‘It seems an unusual problem to have in the current economic climate,’ said group sales director Andy Couthurst, [...]

JCT600 has announced turnover for 2009 of £465m – which has led to buoyant profits of £8.2m for the year. Used car sales drove the performance, and were up an ‘exceptional’ 13 percent over 2008. 48 JCT car dealers and 1350 staff contributed to the performance, and also helped reduce costs while focusing big on [...]

JCT600 boss John Tordoff has told Car Dealer Magazine the group made a ‘significant’ profit in 2009. Despite the recession, the chief executive said his group performed ahead of expectations – and he is confident it will do the same in 2010. ‘Last year was a very satisfactory result and we’ll be releasing our year [...]

JCT600 sold a record total of 632 retail cars over the last 7 day period as customer confidence booms. The Yorkshire car dealer says the past week has been the most successful in its 60-year history. Cars sold were worth a total of more than £10 million – and 2 dealerships each contributed 100 sales [...]

JCT600 has expanded again with the acquisition of three more Audi dealerships for an undisclosed sum. The Boston Audi, Lincoln Audi and Grimsby Audi dealerships, together employing 155 staff, were operated by Bramall and Jones Ltd, a company owned by Tony Bramall and Peter Jones. The company has been sold outright to the family-owned JCT600 [...]

JCT600 has launched an all-new car buying website after significant development and investment. The Yorkshire car dealer says it has done so because 40 percent of its motors are now sold online. This is a massive increase from just 2 years ago, where little more than a quarter were sold online, says chief exec John [...]

JCT600 is expanding in the volume cars arena as well as supercars, with yet another brand new dealer. The firm has opened a new outlet for its Peugeot and SEAT range in Menston. This continues the good news that we brought earlier this week, after the opening of JCT600’s flash new Bentley car dealer in [...]

JCT600 has just opened a new-look Bentley car dealership in Newcastle, after a big-money investment. The £400,000 facility has transformed the Silverlink Business Park car dealer. What’s it bought? A brand new reception area, all-new servicing facilities and what’s described as a ‘state of the art’ car showroom. The facelift has taken 3 months to [...]

JCT600 Yorkshire is experiencing a hectic end of year rush as car buyers battle to beat January’s VAT rise. Things are so busy, the group is selling 1000 used cars in the region a month. And there’s even an extra end-of year bonus in store for customers! The 44 car dealers report a 23 percent [...]

MAZDA car dealer JCT600 Leeds has been officially recognised for selling 3 cars every day in September. This made the Lower Wortley car dealer one of the UK’s top 10 Mazda dealers. Registering 100 new cars throughout the month was ‘a great achievement by the team,’ said JCT600’s Andy Ross. One good enough to see [...]

JCT600 last week issued an ongoing trading update, which revealed the group had a hard 2008. Figures for 2009, however, look much better. What’s behind the big turnaround? Car Dealer Magazine decided to speak with a man in the know – JCT600 sales director Andy Coulthurst. Straight away, he backs up what the figures revealed: [...]

JCT600 dealer group reports it is weathering the crunch of the recession well, despite a decline in new car sales. Chief executive John Tordoff said trading in 2009 has been encouraging, after a challenging 2008. ‘We have enjoyed a successful start to 2009, despite a tough year last year… as a business, we have weathered [...]

AUDI York and Hull now have new branding, with JCT600 completing the purchase of the two dealers. Gilder Group has sold the car dealers to JCT600, which become the first Audi franchises under the firm’s umbrella. 80 staff are employed in the Yorkshire outlets, which have a combined annual turnover of £30m. Chief executive John [...]