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...

As the green shoots of the new car industry continue to grow, JLR announced a profit of £265m in the three months up to December (following a £9m loss in 2022) and a wider strategic vision entitled...

Registrations of new vehicles grew again in June, but the 28% rise represents a somewhat false picture given the Covid impact on 2020 figures. A more meaningful comparison is the previous decade...

Land Rover will offer its biggest-ever range of accessories with the introduction of the new Defender. More than 170 individual items will be offered from launch, thanks to a program that saw OE...

Land Rover design director Gerry McGovern has likened the Range Rover Evoque to an Apple iPhone – and insisted the firm would have been mistaken to radically change the design of the all-new...

Vertu has acquired Newport based Vans Direct for £7.5m, in an acquisition that the board expects to be immediately earnings enhancing. Vertu CEO Robert Forrester said “This is an exciting...

Other than knowing where the on/off button is on my PC my IT skills are those of someone from the Stone Age so perhaps I am not the best person to comment but I have long been inherently distrustful...

The UK new car market fell again in February, with the 80,805 new cars registered representing a 2.8% drop compared with February 2017. Private and fleet registrations were down 2.8% and 2.0%...

BMW has ceased production of a number of key models as a result of the new fuel and emissions Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP). A senior leasing industry source received an...

After a slight improvement in the relationships between retailers and manufacturers in the summer 2016 NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey, they are now back at their record low. The key question of how...

Citroen and the DS franchise, with its separate network from July 2018, will be joined by a chain of permanent shopping mall outlets, described by the brands’ UK managing director, Bekir Hassan, as...

Land Rover’s 117 dealership sales points are likely to generate over 80,000 units this year as the radical corporate identity arch initiative involving retailer partners investing over £1 billion in...

Jardine Motors’ managing director Neil Williamson has been in his job for almost exactly a year, having moved from running the UK national sales company for Seat and before that Mercedes-Benz Retail...

Customer satisfaction has risen in the third consecutive UK CSI survey, increasing by 1.2 points (out of 100) compared to a year ago to a score of 77.4. This also represents the largest year on year...

Rockar, the online and shopping centre-based automotive retail group which operates a no-haggle price policy, is to open a store for Jaguar and Land Rover in the Westfield mall in East London. Until...

I’m not the one who pays the wages. The customers pay the wages; I just recycle the funds. These are the words of Guy Harwood, chairman of Harwoods Group, and they emphasise the importance that the...

Cambria has issued a trading update for the period to the end of February ahead of its interim results, highlighting that trading in the first five months of the financial year has been substantially...

Now, that we are in February and have a little perspective, January feels like the world’s worst nightmare. Most of Europe wasn’t even awake when China kicked off 2016 with bad news: a tenth month...

Jaguar Land Rover’s UK sales director Chris Newitt has refuted claims that the Land Rover franchise is propping up its loss-making retailer Jaguar counterpart and called on dealers representing the...

Jaguar is match fit, on the same pitch as and poised to score goals against the premium sector’s dominant German brand trio with the XE saloon and F-Pace crossover offering retailers the prospect of...