With the challenging business conditions, retailers remain concerned about new car sales over the next six months, and more now believe we will see increased forced registrations to make up the...

August new car registrations look set to end the month vastly up on the same month last year, according to industry sources. The hike is due to manufacturers pushing cars into the networks that have...

With increased pressure on new car sales, and numbers already starting to dip, could the used car market fill the void in 2018? By Ian Allen The long forecast lowering of new car sales is now underway...

Hyundai is planning to make its online new car sales platform available to retailers. The move, which is expected in the next few months, would allow retailers using the software to set their own new...

Average diesel prices remain stable, but the current fuel debate is only serving to confuse car buyers. Retailers must play a role alongside manufacturers in educating and helping them in their car...

Equity research analyst N+1 Singer has reduced its forecasts across the automotive retail sector following the latest figures on new car registrations. Analyst Matthew McEachran said: Nerves ahead of...

With September’s new car registrations representing a worse performance than many had anticipated (see page 22), market analyst Zeus Capital believes the weakness in private registrations points to...

We’re all familiar with the huge rise in new car sales, financed by on PCP schemes, and a lot of people are looking at the impact of this trend on the used car market. It’s something Auto Retail...

Is the auto retail industry missing out on the best management because of a lack of training? It’s something I’ve been thinking about following a meeting I had with Steve Nash, the chief executive...

Booming new car ‘sales’ in 2013 have stoked a lot of discussion in the trade and wider media about the accuracy of registration figures and their relation to actual new car sales. In other words,...

Welcome to September. With the SMMT predicting around 390,000 new cars to be registered in the next four weeks, it’s likely to be a hectic time for everybody. Not that we should be complaining. That...

Citroën retailer Freeborn garages of Southampton has been forced to pay over £1,300 in compensation to a customer, after inadvertently breaching the Sale of Goods Act. The case was featured...

I know it’s slightly unusual but I’d like to address this blog to Adrian who works the sales showroom at Evans Halshaw in Milton Keynes. The rest of you can go do something else – or...

New car registrations for the import March sales period have dispelled fears from some quarters that the market was running out of steam. The market for the month rose by 5.9% and for the first...

The question of forced registrations has always been one of the worst kept secrets in the auto retail industry but suddenly, it seems, everybody is talking about it. Since Vertu Motors drew attention...

With September now over it looks likely the new car registrations for the month will, as we predicted last week, finish just fractionally ahead of where they were a year ago. Speaking to several...

I’ve never really understood the carmakers’ obsession with younger buyers. In fact, I couldn’t tell you how many new car presentations I’ve sat through where I’ve been...

How ironic that, in the week the UK opts out of plans to tackle the euro debt crisis, the auto retail industry is struggling to get to grips with a new piece of EU legislation – eco-labels on...

The publication this week of the 2011 BCA Used Car Market Report puts some hard facts on the trends felt by retailers on a day-to-day basis. The one that kept coming back though, was the age of the...

 The number of people considering buying a plug-in hybrid or battery electric car as their next vehicle purchase has risen from 9% to 53%, according to a new survey by Glass’s. The poll...