It sounds fantastic and very seductive but the truth is, well there’s no such thing.
Admittedly when you examine the paperwork you will see that the agreement shows that there is no interest on the loan but in reality you do end up paying that interest in different ways. It stands to reason really, can any [...]

Despite the British Summer lasting approximately only one and a half weeks AutoExpress reports a surge in drop-top sales…

It’s official! British motorists love going topless. Cabrio sales are rising, and figures from supermarket Carcraft prove it.
The chain saw a 33 per cent increase in convertible sales between 2006 and 2007. Cabrios now account [...]

Ben Webster writing on TimesOnLine unveils a story about "secret" tax for motorists;

Tens of thousands of families will have to pay up to £245 extra a year under new road tax rules after a covert government decision to include cars up to seven years old.
The Treasury admitted to The Times last night that [...]

AutoWired has a very interesting article regarding the increasing number of write-offs and dangerous repairs due to poor residual values:
The cost of safety related parts such as air bags, combined with poor residual values is leading to a rapid rise in the number of late model vehicles being written off, according to research [...]

Motor Trader Online has an interesting article regarding how car choice is determined by geography in the UK.
New survey shows car map of Great Britain Customers’ choice of cars is determined by the area they live in, according to a new survey by Tesco.

Tescocompare.com, the supermarket’s independent website for car insurance, found the most popular [...]

As a Motor Trade Insider I’ve seen some funny things in my time but, perhaps, one of the most outrageous was what happened with the young apprentice and the Tasar gun! Now that alone should give you a clue as to what actually happened but it went something like this…

A customer had brought in [...]

Motorist Club reports…

Vauxhall’s famous Griffin logo has been redesigned, and will appear for the first time on the new Insignia, which will make its debut at the London Motor Show in July, and then be displayed at Vauxhall dealerships from August.
Like several other manufacturers, Vauxhall updates its logo every so often - the last occasion [...]

02 May 2008 from Motor Trader Magazine

Older cars will now be more difficult to sell
The Treasury’s introduction of new Vehicle Excise Duty rates could have a major impact on car dealers, according to data provider Cap. “CO2 hasn’t really mattered too much in the past for the private motorist, but it’s our belief that it [...]

 
Andrew leach writes in todays Mail on Sunday Finance section about Pendragon’s drive for service sales…
Pendragon, Britain’s biggest motor dealer, is set to take advantage of its nationally branded Evans Halshaw volume car business for the first time by offering buyers of used vehicles a two-year MOT and service package for £234.
From next month, Evans Halshaw customers [...]

23 April 2008  from MotorTrader.com
Japanese carmaker is worth $35,134m
The Japanese manufacturer came twelfth in the poll with a brand value of $35,134m (£17.5m).

Google headed the list followed by General Electric and Microsoft.The study said the car market suffered from hikes in the price of crude oil and raw materials, fluctuations in exchange rates, and structural [...]

Alan O’Sullivan  writing in Today’s Mail on Sunday Financial section has a story about how the current “credit crunch” is likely to hit the poorest car buyers….
The biggest financier of “sub-prime” car loans has dramatically withdrawn funding from hundreds of independent dealerships to focus on its own outlets. It could mean that thousands of drivers looking for [...]

Dealer network scoops second place in prestigious Auto Express poll Average score of over 85% suggests customers are very happy indeed New Octavia is the 2008 Auto Express Driver Power survey ‘Car of the Year’ 
Read more at CarPages

Chrysler are installing mirros in their new car showrooms, so the customer can see how they look in the car…let’s look-up the word gimmick…!

http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/11042008/36/bum-look-big-0.html

 
If it sounds like it’s  too good to be true, then it probably is!
Here’s an interesting article by Jason Dawe in The Times…
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/features/article3538393.ece

Warranty Direct, the independent automotive warranty specialist, has
used its database of reliability data on over 60,000 used vehicles to come up with a list of the most reliable cars…

Click here to find a list of what options car manufacturers are currenly offering the environmentally conscious customer…

http://www.cleangreencars.co.uk/jsp/cgcmain.jsp?lnk=600

An interesting survey carried out by BCA (British Car Auctions) reveals the disparity between what customers want and what dealers think they want!
You can find the full article here…
http://www.am-online.com/news/view_article.asp?art_ID=42896286&menu=1 (registration required)

The “credit crunch” could prove anything but for car dealers…
 http://www.motortrader.com/26875/Car-dealers-could-benefit-from.ehtml
Motor Trade Insider will be covering funding solutions in depth in our forthcoming book…

Can this be true?…make up your own mind!
Gasoline versus Water:
There is a lot of energy in gasoline; there is considerably more in water!
The engine in your car operates by internal combustion, a process defined as “a thermo-vapor process” meaning there is no liquid in the reaction. The sad fact about gasoline is, most of it [...]

A new government report to be published alongside the Budget says car buyers should be made aware of the full cost of car ownership.
Read on…
http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/12032008/36/t/government-wants-cars-priced-life-0.html

The current colour coded banding for Road Fund Licence

In our book on “Buying New Cars” we talk about the changing face of modern car manufacturers and “who owns who”. We also stated that it is an ever changing environment. With the news today that Ford have off-loaded Jaguar and Land Rover to Indian car maker TATA the story continues…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7313380.stm

They say the climate is changing…well the climate could be changing in the Motor Industry if the government has its way.
http://www.motortrader.com/26919/Motorists-are-bullied-into-gre.ehtml