NEW FINANCE LEGISLATION COULD BOOST RETAILER PROFITS BLAZE LEADS TO JOB LOSSES AT RON SKINNER & SONS JOHN O’HANLON AND GRAEME POTTS TO JOIN AUTO RETAIL LIVE MCGOVERN AND MARDELL: JAGUAR’S...

My daughter’s car is two months from its next MOT and annual service, and seeing as she’s at uni right now and her car isn’t, everything automotive falls to me. Rather helpfully, my local...

Overall total-brand average unchanged Lexus drops out of top 10 Mercedes retailers now loving agency Kia top again Jaguar is fastest climber Citroen is fastest faller and last Several car brands have...

Stellantis UK group managing director Maria Grazia Davino has “decided to leave the company for other interests” with immediate effect, according to the manufacturer. Recently promoted Peugeot UK...

Alfa Romeo, which has seen its network numbers fluctuate in recent years, is aiming to grow the number of retailers to 36 by mid-2025, according to UK managing director Jules Tilstone. Tilstone said...

ALFA TO HIT 34-STRONG NETWORK BY MID-25 NEW ENTRANTS REPORT 2024 PUBLISHED THIS WEEK COMPLETELY MOTORING IN ADMINISTRATION NORWAY’S LARGEST IMPORTER RECONSIDERS ICE PREVIOUS LEAPMOTOR IMPORTER TAKES...

FORD PINS EV HOPES ON GOVERNMENT INCENTIVES INEOS: DIRECT SALES ‘A MISTAKE’ DUFF MORGAN & VERMONT SAW ‘NO FUTURE’ WITH STELLANTIS WEBINAR: EXPERTS AND OEMS TO EXPLORE NEW ENTRANTS...

LOOKERS OWNER IN NEW $1.2bn EU DEAL PROFIT DOWN AT GLYN HOPKIN BUT UP AT JCB MEDWAY DfT FIGURES SHOW EV INTEREST AT FOUR-YEAR LOW AVAILABLE CAR LOSS SWELLS TO £10.8m VERTU DITCHES TIES STELLANTIS...

REPORT: VOLKSWAGEN TO CUT UK BUSINESS PARTNERS LSH 2023 LOSS MORE THAN DOUBLES TO £11m LABOUR TO BACKTRACK ON 2030 ICE BAN US STELLANTIS RETAILERS SLAM TAVARES IN OPEN LETTER CHINA CAR SALES FALL FOR...

CHINESE IMPORT TARIFF LOOPHOLE 2030 ICE PHASE-OUT ‘A MAJOR RISK’ BERRY BMW PROFIT ALMOST HALVES VOLVO BOSS ‘HAPPY TO BE BOMBARDED’ BY WYLANDS AUTO RETAIL LIVE TO HELP RETAILERS HIT TARGETS...

FORD CEO: EV JOURNEY ‘HUMBLING’ USED EVs NOW ‘SPECTACULAR BARGAINS’ NOTTINGHAM ARENA RENEWS MOTORPOINT NAMING RIGHTS AUTO RETAIL LIVE TO HELP RETAILERS HIT TARGETS AUSTRALIANS GET ‘RIGHT TO...

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...

EVs ‘BEING FORCED ON CUSTOMERS’ SAYS SIR JIM RATCLIFFE MERCEDES-BENZ WARNS OF WANING EV DEMAND CAR INDUSTRY WARNED ABOUT KEYLESS THEFT A DECADE AGO STELLANTIS BOSS RECEIVES 56% PAY RISE TO £31m...

LENDERS COULD FACE £10bn BILL OVER CAR FINANCING FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITIES AT NEW ENTRANT IMPORTER IA JCT600 BUYS LAND; LISTERS BUYS GUY SALMON JAGUAR STELLANTIS LAUNCHES EUROREPAR FOR INDEPENDENTS...

RETAILER TARGETED BY ‘CAR CANNIBALS’ BIZARRE’ OPENING DELAY FOR BARNETTS LEXUS TOYOTA CONSTELLATION UPS VERTU STAKE, HEDIN CUTS PENDRAGON HYUNDAI NAMES OHME OFFICIAL CHARGING PARTNER HERTZ TO...

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...

Olivier Francois, Fiat and Abarth CEO and Stellantis global chief marketing officer, has now been CEO of Fiat for 12 years. He describes his career as spanning two eras. The first was when Fiat was...

Stellantis is moving to a country-by-country approach to agency in Europe, rather than by brands. It follows “unexpected IT troubles” in September after pilot programmes in Austria and Benelux....

RETAILERS REACH OUT AFTER LOOKERS REDUNDANCIES STELLANTIS SWITCHES TO COUNTRY-BY COUNTRY EU AGENCY APPROACH RETAILERS LOSING MILLION IN ‘UNNECESSARY’ PRICE CUTS AUTO RETAIL LIVE ADVICE FOR 2024...

All eight of the Stellantis brands, including the commercial vehicle operations, will move to agency agreements, but not until “late 2026” at the earliest, according to new UK group managing...