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PEUGEOT has revealed that it will need to adjust its sales estimates for the 508 after recent high demand for the new car. Despite being on sale to the public for only one week, the 508 has already attracted more than 1,700 orders. ‘Our initial sales estimate was 6,000 for this year,’ said Andrew Didlick, [...]

The 508 is tasked with helping push Peugeot into the premium sector. James Baggott tries it for size. WHAT IS IT? Peugeot’s offering to company car drivers. Aimed squarely at the Volkswagen Passat and Ford Mondeo, the 508 aims to attract fleet buyers and user choosers with a premium feel, sharp styling and a focus [...]

Peugeot UK’s product planning manager tells Car Dealer why he – and his dealers – are so excited about 508 How important is the new 508 to dealers? Massively. It signals a statement of intent for us and dealers that we’re serious about the D segment. It shows we are serious about producing a car [...]

PEUGEOT is embracing social media with gusto – the firm has launched a new customer service channel on Twitter. The @PeugeotCare channel supplements Peugeot’s existing telephone and email customer response service and will allow the brand a link with its customers ‘in a forum where common queries can be displayed, shared and responded to, in [...]

WARRANTY Direct has revealed that the UK’s most reliable car is not German, nor is it Japanese – but it’s the Peugeot 207. The company analysed more than 20,000 live policies on European cars aged between three to seven years for its Reliability Index website, and found that only one in 17 207s break down in [...]

PEUGEOT UK boss Jon Goodman has revealed his plans for the marque for the next twelve months. A focus on aftersales, a return to profitable times for his dealers, and making the brand desirable to customers are all primary goals for Goodman – even social media is on the radar. While the French marque grew [...]

PEUGEOT has not ruled out putting a hybrid RCZ into production, the French firm’s top brass have revealed. A hybrid version of the marque’s sports car was shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2009 but details on whether it would make production have been sketchy since. But at the launch of the marque’s Ford [...]

2010 saw Peugeot celebrate not only its 200th anniversary but also the posting of record-breaking sales. Record sales of 2,142,000 units helped Peugeot consolidate its position as the world’s leading French automobile marque, with sales up by 16.3 per cent delivering a 3 per cent worldwide market share. In Europe, Peugeot saw its sales grow for the third year [...]

PEUGEOT has announced the 22 dealers who will ‘specialise’ in selling the firm’s all electric car – the iOn. The 22 dealers are all ‘geographically aligned’ to the ‘Plugged-in Places’ which will receive Government support to build the necessary charging infrastructure to support electric vehicles. Each dealer will have an iOn demonstrator available, dedicated electric [...]

GATEWAY Motor Company MD Chris Kidd has been appointed chairman of the maker’s dealer council. Kidd, who takes over from David Manchester of Charters Motor Group after six years in the role, has been chairman of the council’s northern region for four years. The Peugeot Dealer Council serves as a liaison point between Peugeot UK [...]

PEUGEOT is riding high after a successive November with strong growths in their car and LCV sales figures. Car sales were up 7.7 per cent in November – strong fleet and diesel sales, and Peugeot’s Just Add Fuel programme contributed to this. The firm sold more than 7,617 cars, giving a market share of 5.45 per [...]

NORFOLK Peugeot dealer Howes and Sons Ltd has gone into administration it has been revealed. The company – which can trace its routes back to 1784 – has been has been selling cars in the area for 50 years. Trading as Howes of Fakenham, the Peugeot dealer had an annual turnover of £3m The joint [...]

We have some criteria to get a place in our RTOTY line up. It might seem like an excuse to get away for a few days in some exciting cars – and you’d be right in a lot of respects – but we do run our entrants past a loose set of rules too. Cars have to [...]

CYNICS of the Peugeot RCZ can now be silenced as the car has now stamped its presence on the used car market. Dealers have already said that they are experiencing demand outstripping supply for new RCZs – now the same can be said of RCZs in the used market. At a recent closed auction at Bruntingthorpe [...]

KIA and Peugeot have bucked the market downturn in the September new car sales figures. A total of 47,523 cars have been sold by Kia over the last 12 months – a 36.6 per cent increase over last year when 34,777 were sold. Retail sales for the year up to the end of September totaled [...]

HARRATTS has just opened another new car dealer in Leeds with the creation of Peugeot Leeds. In doing so, it has added 25 new jobs to the national car dealer tally. MD Shaun Harratt reckons it is a natural next step for the car dealer group: ‘We already have a very successful Peugeot dealership in [...]

VERTU Motors continues its expansion drive with the acquisition of trade and assets from Hardie Motor. It has acquired leasehold property for Dunfermline Peugeot and is expected to pay a £300k consideration for vehicle stock. Unaudited accounts show it was a £3.5m turnover business for year-end 2009, and made a small profit. It is also [...]

DEALERS need to embrace Twitter and Facebook if they want to be successful in the future, says Peugeot’s MD. Jon Goodman told Car Dealer he believes social media is only going to get more and more important to dealers in the years to come. And he says by engaging now, dealers can steal a march [...]

CITROEN has appointed Charles Peugeot as sales director for the UK cars division following CV success. Under his watch, Citroen commercial vehicle sales rose by nearly 25 percent. Now, he’s taking over the top sales job in Citroen UK, a promotion that he will take on from 1 August. ‘Citroen has changed dramatically in recent [...]

PEUGEOT has unveiled its brand new 508 saloon which it says marks an all-new design look for the French brand. Set for launch at the start of 2011, the new saloon and SW estate will get their public debut at the Paris Motor Show in October. Peugeot says the new 508 carries design concepts first [...]