This year’s SMMT annual dinner was a grand affair with an whopping 1100 industry luminaries in attendance. And me. Joking aside, as an industry we’ve found ourselves at the end of the year...

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Two fine examples of marketing hyperbole have kept me amused this week and both of them relate to electric cars – or rather, I should say, sales of electric cars. The first is the new tag line...

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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...

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February is traditionally one of the quietest months of the year for new car registrations, however, the retail market remained up (marginally) on 2011. Total registrations for the month were down...

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