Pretty much every brand could sustain 2% and perhaps even 3% or more market share from a retail network of just 20 locations. That’s the view of Rockar founder Simon Dixon, and while he stops short...

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Rockar founder Simon Dixon has split the business into two separate entities, with one focused on technology and the other on retail. A key goal for the retail arm is to deliver retail in what Mr...

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A new report on the future of automotive sales has concluded that the sector is at a tipping point, and should accelerate towards an agency style of retail. Describing the situation as a tipping...

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Everyone will be buying cars online and no-one will need to visit an out-of-town dealership in just a few years’ time, according to Rockar founder Simon Dixon. For a company that’s in business to...

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In so many areas of retail, it is John Lewis that is quoted as the benchmark standard. But how closely could or should automotive retailers follow the ‘John Lewis model’ and approach? That ‘model’...

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Simon Dixon, former boss of Dixon Motors, and founder of JamJar Cars, has returned to new car retail with a Hyundai franchise based in Bluewater shopping centre in Kent. Under the name Rockar Hyundai,...

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