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EUROTAXGLASS’S has appointed ex-Masterlease man Dean Bowkett to lead its global services team. He will work with editorial teams across the firm’s 30 markets to make sure used values and RVs achieve consistent quality. Bowkett will also bring lots of experience from the leasing sector – an area that Glass’s is placing an increasing focus [...]

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 [...]

USED car sales need tighter regulations to help protect customers against unscrupulous car dealers. Warranty Direct has made the call, after OFT stats showed secondhand car complaints had risen 18 percent in the first half of 2010. It’s costing motorists an average of £425 per car, reckons Warranty Direct MD Duncan McClure Fisher. This is [...]

BCA has joined CAP in reporting a decrease in used car prices after analysing recent auction results. The ‘real world’ fall shows dealers are willing to pay less for stock at car auction. An average used car is now worth £5784: the fall is a modest quarter-percent, but it is a fall nonetheless. Particularly as [...]