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Although 90% of Peugeot customers start the buying process on the internet, the percentage of those who buy entirely online is “well below 5%” Peugeot boss Linda Jackson has revealed. “In the...

Repeated lockdowns have demanded that motor dealers get better and better at online sales that enable online-click-and-collect trading models. But, as retailers have continually refined their...

Bringing online sales for new vehicles to the retail offering doesn’t just address customer demand, it also moves retailers higher up the buying process and brings valuable insight into the...

The Covid-19 pandemic will undoubtedly increase the speed of selling vehicles online in the automotive sector, with the full transaction or part transactions being completed online as consumers demand...

Volvo retailers “remain critical” to the customer journey according to the brand’s sales director Matt Galvin, as he revealed that average retailer profits in 2019 are set to finish higher than...

Audi will begin online sales on Wednesday with a small pilot scheme and has confirmed the programme will in time be rolled out to the UK. Next week’s trial is confined to the German market only and...

Infiniti has launched an online buying facility – just weeks after confirming it will pull out of the UK next year and amid doubts the service even works. People who have tried the site at...

Kia is defying conventional logic and not planning a dedicated online sales channel. This is despite building up a head of steam that saw it celebrating both record sales last year and a record 4% of...

Jaguar Land Rover will have a full online sales operation running by the middle of 2019, according to managing director Rawdon Glover. Speaking exclusively to Auto Retail Agenda, Mr Glover said the...

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Toyota is planning to start full online sales later this year. The manufacturer is working on the scheme at a European level and will start off with a trial programme with the Toyota Supra which goes...

Suzuki, whose dealers are enjoying an average 2.7% return on sales across the 156-outlet network, is planning to launch an online sales channel with an intensified emphasis on personal contract hire...

Ford will join the growing number of brands offering online car buying this month when it starts a direct sales operation from its website.  The operation and systems have been set up by with the...

What set the best apart from the rest in the 2018 Auto Retail Website Report? Editor Steve lays out how the best performers earned top marks By Steve Johnson, Auto Retail Network Website Report 2018...

Vincent Tourette, the recently appointed boss of Renault and Dacia in the UK, is spending his initial time running the company examining the business as a whole, but has already identified a host of...

Dacia’s 156 UK retailers are set to play a pivotal role in Renault’s plans to use the budget OEM’s British network as a proving ground for an online sales channel. Group Renault UK’s sales...

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With the online side of selling cars dominating an ever increasing proportion of the sales, and aftersales, process it’s no wonder that retailers and manufacturers alike are always looking for an...