The overall UK new car market might have finished strongly in December, but fleet was the only driver of that growth, with retail registrations falling 14% compared with the same month last year. The...

Olivier Francois, Fiat and Abarth CEO and Stellantis global chief marketing officer, has now been CEO of Fiat for 12 years. He describes his career as spanning two eras. The first was when Fiat was...

Retail demand for new vehicles slumped in November, falling 5.9% compared with the same month last year. The 60,506 new registrations, down from 64,921 in November 2022, represent a market share of...

The new Abarth 500e is the brand’s first electric car and arrives to kickstart the Stellantis city performance division’s sales in the UK. The new car is not currently due to replace the existing...

September saw a fall in retail registrations as the OEMs seemingly moved to address growing demand from the fleet sector. The result was that while fleet registrations increased 12.5% to 101,760...

The first half of 2021 has seen a further improvement in the state of relationships between retailers and their manufacturers. The latest NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey has sentiment at a score of 6.5...

In a major reorganisation of its retail networks, Stellantis is issuing all retailers in the UK and EU with termination notices and is planning to re-appoint an “optimised” number under a new...

FCA Group MD Arnaud Leclerc has said there is work to be done on improving the relationship between the group’s various brands and its retailers. While he points out that there has been a slight...

Manufacturer-retailer relationships have improved in the past six months, according to the latest NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey. The 0.4 point rise to 5.7 for the overall relationship marks the first...

Tough call, isn’t it, when a manufacturer for which you hold a franchise says it plans to set up a new brand and expects you to get fully behind it and invest. The trade is littered with cases where...

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Franchised retailers have again punished their manufacturer partners with a new all-time low score in the latest NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey. The January 2018 survey saw a drop of 0.3 to a score of...

Alfa Romeo’s 59-strong retailer network is within touching distance of a long-awaited revival in volume and profits as it prepares for the pivotal new D sector Giulia to reach the British market next...