AUTO RETAILERS ‘ON BRINK OF £16bn DCA CRISIS’ FCA BLAMED FOR DCA CRISIS JETTEN LEAVES SEAT; COLLIER LEAVES JACKSONS MARSHALL 2024 PROFIT DOWN OLDEST MERCEDES-BENZ RETAILER CLOSES CAFFYNS SELLS...

VW Group is planning to reduce both the number of retail partners and the number of locations for its portfolio of brands including Audi, Seat, Skoda, Cupra and Volkswagen, a spokesperson has...

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...

After a modest uplift in September, which itself followed a significant downward swing in August, retail registrations were all but flat in October, showing a rise of just 0.3% compared with the same...

Cupra and Seat boss Wayne Griffiths has labelled the UK 2030 deadline banning new petrol and diesel sales “dogma” and says he doesn’t think “prohibition… [is] the right way to change...

CUPRA BOSS SLAMS 2030 ‘DOGMA’ SMART UPS NETWORK TARGET CLIVE SUTTON CLAIMS VICTORY IN LEGAL BATTLE EUROPCAR ADDS ORA FUNKY CAT TO DAILY RENTAL BYD ‘DECLARES WAR’ ON WESTERN OEMs FERRARI CHINA...

In a strange set of October registrations figures, the continuation of September’s prioritisation of fleet by the OEMs was the least of the surprises. Perhaps more so was the strength of the...

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...

Cupra, Seat’s premium performance brand, is understood to be planning to shift from a franchise model for its UK network to an agency agreement this summer. Sources within the Cupra network have...

  CUPRA IN AGENCY MODEL MOVE TIME-TO-SELL BACK TO PRE-COVID LEVELS NFDA TO GRILL GOVERNMENT OVER PLUG-IN CAR GRANT FORMER AUTO RETAILER MISSING FIND OUT HOW TO MAKE UP FOR MARCH LEADING US USED...

  AUTO CHIP SHORTAGE TO WORSEN IN Q2 USED CAR MARKET ‘HOTTING UP’ LONDON DIESEL ‘BARGAINS’ RESOLD TO THE SHIRES H&M ‘FREE SUIT LOAN’ FOR JOB INTERVIEWS CARVANA IN SALE-READY...

Despite the coronavirus pandemic causing an enforced shutdown and global lockdown, Bentley managed to achieve a new car sales record in 2020 (more than 11,000 cars is a 101-year high) – and the...

Seat has issued a statement that its president, Luca de Meo, on his own request and in common agreement with the Volkswagen Group, is stepping down from his position. He will remain a member of the...

  ANGELA SHEPHERD ‘MOST SENIOR WOMAN IN UK AUTO RETAIL’ PENDRAGON’S BRIAN SMALL BUYS 400,000 SHARES DEMAND OUTSTRIPS SUPPLY ON EVS CAZANA LAUNCHES PRICE FLAGS WORLD NEWS – European car...

Seat UK MD Richard Harrison has hit the targets he defined when he started in his role four and a half years ago: 3% market share, 2% return on sales. With the first chapter of the strategy drawing to...

AUTO LEADERS MEET LEADSOM LSH AUTO LOSSES HALVED AUTONOMOUS CARS ‘WILL ONLY LAST FOUR YEARS’ LOUISE WOODS LEAVES NFDA TOYOTA AND SUZUKI DEEPEN TIES TESLA LAUNCHES CAR INSURANCE STOCKWATCH...

Seat has hit a network average return on sales of 2.0%, according to managing director Richard Harrison. “We hit our strategic target last year, three years after we set out our recovery programme;...

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...

  SSANGYONG TARGETS TIE-UP WITH VOLUME RETAILERS JOHN GROSE GROUP CUTS PARTS SALES PREPARE WELL AND PRICE SENSIBLY TO SELL SAYS BCA SEAT MULLS NEW SALES ROUTE WORLD NEWS – Mazda prepared to...

It’s heartening to see MG expanding and seemingly going from strength to strength. Talking to the press office this week they say the retailers are happy, are making money soon after starting with...