NEWS

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 to the [...]

LAND Rover sales shot up 58 percent in January thanks to the bad weather driving off-roader sales.
The new Discovery 4 range actually performed even better by clocking up a 92 percent sales rise at car dealers!
‘Heavy snow and icy conditions last month meant car buyers were looking for a vehicle that provides them with the [...]

FORD once again topped the November new car sales chart with the Fiesta easily beating the next-best.
Which, as luck would have it, was also a Ford – the Focus!
The November performance marks the 9th month in 2009 that the Fiesta has topped the charts. Total Fiesta sales stand at 109,420. Again, the Focus is the [...]

SMMT figures show November car registrations were up 57.6 percent on 2008 levels – in line with 2007 sales.
This has led SMMT chief Paul Everitt to predict the market will exceed 1.975 million units.
Could the 2009 UK new car market thus defy all odds and hit the magic 2 million mark?
So far, the 2009 new [...]

BMW board member Ian Robertson predicts 2010 will be a year of ‘gentle growth’ for the firm.
‘It will not be rapid,’ he said, but recent upturns in markets will continue.
He was speaking at the firm’s annual press dinner, where he detailed how BMW had coped during the past year’s recession. The company, he explained, had [...]

MAZDA is selling more cars to fleets, as businesses respond to list price increases from many manufacturers.
The firm says its ability to manage price rises through 2009 has seen it win a big boost in fleet forward orders.
These are up 19 percent, compared to an 11 percent decline across all car makers.
‘The significant price [...]

NEW car sales for October were  up a huge 31.6% on 2008 levels - the biggest month of growth in 2009.
Figures just released by the SMMT show that 168,942 new cars were sold in October.
This takes the year-to-date total to 1,685,981 sales - meaning the year-on-year fall continues to decline. It now stands at -12.3 [...]

CAR dealers are letting the majority of sales leads slip through their fingers, because of bad practice.
Not following up sales enquiries is seeing 90 percent of prospects walk out the door, say new studies.
Mondial Assistance research has led the firm to conclude a ‘lack of proactive communication with potential customers could be losing dealerships [...]

CAR sales have been so strong recently, the SMMT has added 100,000 motors to its 2009 sales forecast.
The revision is entirely down to the success of the scrappage scheme.
SMMT chief Paul Everitt said ‘the Scrappage Incentive Scheme has had a demonstrably positive impact on new car registrations in 2009’.
It sees the 2009 forecast for new [...]

MAZDA has given UK car dealers an insight into its European performance, by revealing broad sales figures.
It seems the UK wasn’t the only region setting sales records last month: Portugal, Turkey and Tunisia were also at it.
The Mazda2 and Mazda3 led this charge – which saw no less than 16 EU countries report Mazda3 sales [...]