Back in a past life, when I used to work in the press office at Peugeot, Summer Specials were all the rage. The idea was that you took a slow-selling variant, added some stripes and a bit of spec;...

One of the many nice things about this job is that you’re always getting the chance to learn something new. Last week’s webinar, in association with our commercial partners at MSXi, was a...

The NFDA’s submission to the EC’s green paper on unfair trading practices makes for fascinating reading. And there are a number of interesting areas that stand out....

I sometimes feel the auto retail industry spends rather too much time looking inward and not enough looking outward. And last week that’s how I felt while attending a meeting to discuss the...

Had my hair cut last week. Nothing particularly unusual about that, given that it happens every six weeks or so, but this was the first time at this particular salon and it set me thinking about the...

At almost the exact time that I was sat at the SMMT Summit this week listening to Citroen’s managing director Linda Jackson talk on the problems facing with recruitment in auto retail I also...