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PEUGEOT will pilot its new Mu rental service in two UK dealers as it gears up to full deployment of the service. Described as ‘groundbreaking’ by Peugeot MD Jon Goodman, the mobility service is genuinely new. It is based around a credit card-style ‘Mu card’. Customers buy one of these for a one-off £10 charge, [...]

RICHARD Rhodes Peugeot in Wigan has been sold to Stoneacre Motor Group as the firm ups its Peugeot holdings. It is Stoneacre’s third Peugeot acquisition in as many years, and takes its total locations to 25. These represent 11 different car brands. The sale was achieved through ASE’s Dealermatch service. Transaction manager there, David Kendrick, [...]

A sleek coupe with design cues to rival an Audi R8, built in the same factory as the Aston Martin Rapide but yet can be bought for £20k? Sounds too good to be true doesn’t it – but it’s not. This month, Peugeot’s hotly anticipated RCZ hits dealer showrooms and with it a tidal wave of [...]

HARRATTS has opened the 12th dealer in its territory with the launch of city centre outlet Peugeot Leeds. Doors will open of the Scott Hall Road retailer next month. It is big news for local employees – Harratts has taken over the territory of Robins & Day Horsforth and Evans Halshaw Central Leeds. These employees [...]

I HAVE never heard the words ‘Audi TT’ bounded around so much as at the Peugeot RCZ launch on Wednesday. Okay, so it is the obvious rival to the new coupe, but, honestly does every little detail have to be compared to the German offering? ‘Oh yes, it’s a bit wider than the TT’ and ‘Oh, [...]

GATEWAY Peugeot in Crewe, Cheshire, will be the first to preview the RCZ coupe ahead of it going on sale in May. The invitation-only event will be held on Monday April 12th, with around 30 or 40 of the dealership’s customers due to attend. The car is being taken on tour around the UK by [...]

EUROPEAN honours have been bestowed on 3 UK Peugeot car dealers by the brand’s French HQ. Impressively, the 3 homegrown car dealers were among 15 honoured – from a total European pool of more than 1200 retailers! It’s a big vote of success to the strength of the Peugeot UK car dealer network, and has [...]

PEUGEOT and Citroen car dealers will be handling recalls too as the Toyota accelerator problem stretches. It has been confirmed that both the Citroen C1 and Peugeot 107 are going to be recalled to check and rectify the problem. Toyota builds the cars for PSA at its factory in the Czech Republic. Since Toyota’s announcement [...]

BLUE Box is Peugeot’s big dealer rebrand which is getting close to completion reports a company exec. Network development director Rod Philpott told Car Dealer Magazine the end is in sight for the distinctive rebranding programme. It has been well received by the car dealer network, he said, because Peugeot chose, back in 2003, not [...]

SCRAPPAGE has been a great success in broadening car dealer opportunities says Peugeot MD Jon Goodman. However, he says that when it comes to an end, Peugeot will look to other creative plans to incentivise cars, rather than launch a self-financed copycat scheme. ‘The scheme has brought people into car showrooms who would not normally [...]

PEUGEOT has just opened its state of the art Blue Box car dealer with Robins and Day in Birmingham. Car Dealer Magazine was there for the grand opening – along with Peugeot chiefs including MD Jon Goodman! You can check out our gallery of the opening evening below, but we also managed to speak with [...]

PEUGEOT intents to become a more premium car maker with a bold new development plan for 2015. By then, the maker aims to have ‘moved up 3 places in the world car market’. This will see it rank 7th in the ‘World Car Market’ listings, instead of the 10th place it currently holds. How will [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

PEUGEOT will drop the famous GTI badge from its models, bringing to an end the hot hatch Peugeot. This means there will not be a successor to the famous, world-renowned Peugeot 205 GTI. Currently, the GTI tag is carried by the lukewarm Peugeot 207 GTI. This will be dropped in the future as Peugeot’s sporting [...]

PEUGEOT car dealer Regal Motors Bilston has done my mum proud. Which, in Grant Mitchell style, is a good thing (‘s all abaaht the faaamly, ma’). She noticed, when cleaning her 107, the rubber roof trim was coming apart. Not good. So, straight off to the car dealer, which eventually agreed it was warranty-able. Past [...]

CAR dealer group SG Petch is growing despite tough times with a Peugeot car dealer its latest acquisition. It’s driving these expansion plans by finding out more about its customers. Previously, explained financial director Simon Rees, ‘it was possible for someone to visit one of our sites without us learning anything about them. ‘Now we [...]

WHICH? Car today reveals SIX of the least 10 popular cars in the UK are French, according to owners. Renault and Peugeot dominate the bottom of the latest Owner Satisfaction League. Worst of all is the Renault Espace, which one owner described as a ‘fantastic car, if only it would work longer than a month [...]

PERRYS Portsmouth has just invested HALF A MILLION pounds into its booming new and used car sales centres. The Fiat, Mazda and Peugeot car dealers have also had to take on three extra managers to cope with demand. Opening this week is a completely updated used car centre. There’s also a 16-bay all-makes service centre, [...]

DAILY Telegraph readers received a front-page warning today: ‘your ‘one’ owner car may be ex-rental’. The paper has carried out an investigation, and alleges that ‘tens of thousands of used car buyers have unwittingly bought former rental vehicles from official dealerships’. This, continues the paper, has led to some paying ‘thousands of pounds over the [...]