GOVERNMENT PREPARES TO RELAX ZEV MANDATE BRIAN GILDA ‘HORRIFIED’ BY £450k NIC HIT AUTO TRADER AND SMMT LAUNCH EV ‘MYTH-BUSTER’ WESSEX GARAGES IN 2024 LOSS JOE DUFFY MOTORS OWNER UPS VERTU...

As auto retail ZEV Mandate pressures continue to mount, Birmingham University business economics professor David Bailey has slammed UK EV policy as being a “shambles… the industry and consumers...

INDUSTRY AWAITS LABOUR PLANS FOR UK EV POLICY ‘SHAMBLES’ FCA’S SHELDON MILLS PROFILED KPMG LOSES PINEWOOD MOTORPOINT’S CARPENTER SELLS 100,000 SHARES CINCH FD REMAINS IN PLACE FIRST CHINESE...

DAY’S MOTOR GROUP AND WADDELL RESULTS VAN MOSSEL BRAND GOES LIVE IN UK SMMT’S MIKE HAWES MADE OBE CINCH ENDS TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR SHIRT SPONSORSHIP RENAULT RETAIL’S SCOTT KILBOURN NOW CFO OF...

Pro-EV lobbying and data NGO New Automotive has joined a growing number of firms criticising the way SMMT reports retail electric car demand, claiming falling private demand for EVs is a “myth based...

CAR INDUSTRY ‘WRONG ABOUT FALLING RETAIL EV DEMAND’ MOTOR TRADE ‘A JOB BRITS DON’T WANT TO DO’ AFI REBRANDS AS AUTOMOTIVE LEADERSHIP NETWORK FLEETS CALL FOR OEMS TO SOLVE 12V BATTERY ISSUES...

NFDA MANIFESTO TO LAUNCH THIS WEEK CAZOO CUSTOMER GETS £1k BILL AFTER COLLAPSE COULD WORK EMAILS BE BANNED AFTER 5PM? RETAILERS STILL UNDERPRICING IN-DEMAND STOCK KIA ACCUSES US RETAILER OF $500k...

The UK new car market grew 8.2% in December but it was all driven by fleet, with private registrations seeing a fall of 15.8% against fleet’s growth 29.9%. That leaves the market share figures...

January new car registrations, out at 9am on Monday 5 February, are expected to reveal a significant drop in BEV market share against the overall figure for 2023, according to Auto Retail Agenda...

BEV REGISTRATIONS OFF TO A ROCKY START IN 2024 JLR REAFFIRMS AGENCY SALES DATE AUTO RETAIL LIVE PODCAST: LISTEN NOW McLAREN RECEIVES YET MORE BAHRAIN FUNDS RETAILERS: BIDEN EV STRATEGY ‘TOO...

I wouldn’t want to be a product planner in 2024, said SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes in a new year briefing on what 2024 has in store for the UK automotive industry. The roll-out of the ZEV Mandate...

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...

Against a backdrop of low economic growth, high interest rates and high inflation, Graeme Chaplin, Bank of England agent for the West Midlands and Oxfordshire, believes there will be some growth in...

Retail demand for new vehicles slumped in November, falling 5.9% compared with the same month last year. The 60,506 new registrations, down from 64,921 in November 2022, represent a market share of...

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...

September’s new car registrations showed growth in the retail sector, but only by a modest 5.8%, which was dwarfed by the 40.8% increase in the fleet market. Some 122,944 new cars were registered by...

Retail registrations fell 8.1% in August compared with the same month last year (in what was a supply-constrained market), while at the same time fleet registrations surged over 58%. The result was a...

HENDY EXPANDS INTO STELLANTIS; PETER VARDY GROWS MG PERRYS REVENUE UP BUT PROFIT FALLS DALE WYATT: AUGUST NEW CAR SALES WILL BE UP 25% LOOKERS’ DUNCAN MCPHEE CONFIRMED FOR AUTO RETAIL LIVE SPOTICAR...

Retail registrations increased just 0.3% in July compared with the same month in 2022, with the 60,045 vehicles registered bringing growth of just 162 units. And year-to-date retail registrations are...

After several months of flat or falling numbers, private new vehicle registrations picked up in June, seeing 14.8% growth compared with the same month last year. Having said that, June 2022, in the...