Motor Industry News
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VW profits down 80 percent in 2009
Europe's biggest carmaker, VW, saw net profits fall 80% last year to 960m euros. Operating profits also fell 71% from a year earlier to 1.9bn ...
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New car C02 emissions down by biggest ever margin
The average CO2 emissions for new cars fell by their biggest ever margin in 2009 according to the annual New Car CO2 Report released today ...
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Scrappage registrations reach 324,991 units
Figures from the SMMT show that 324,991 new cars were registered through the scrappage scheme by the end of February. Commenting on the data, SMMT chief ...
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A rise to 20% VAT would be “a disaster” for the automotive industry
With the government's scrappage incentive due to expire at the end of March UK car companies are predicting new vehicle sales to fall by as ...
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February 2010 new car registration figures
Car market up 26.4 percent in February, despite the return of VAT to 17.5 percent. The figures continue to be boosted by the scrappage scheme ...
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Nissan recalls over half a million US vehicles
Nissan has indentified problems with brake pedal pins which come loose and faulty fuel gauges on Titan, Armada, Quest and Infiniti QX56 vehicles built between ...
Bargain of the Week
Bargain of the Week – Buying a Supercar – part one
Nine are still in yet calling the shots on who has it when is still to be decided, and there's still one (me) who has ...
Bargain of the Week – Mini Cooper
Insurance wise, better to choose the Mini One, but stretch your budget ever so slightly and pick the 1.6 Cooper. Not because of the famous ...
Bargain of the Week – Porsche Cayenne S
Considering you can buy an equivalent 4x4 with barely any badge status, having a Cayenne on your driveway will certainly perk the interest of your ...
Scrappage
Scrappage scheme ends, hard work begins
I think that scrappage was exactly the shot in the arm the business needed and should be acknowledged as that, it’s now back to hard ...
Car Makers Premier League – February 2010
With the scheme’s official end date being the 31st March we are now in the scrappage end game so it will be very interesting to ...
Scrappage scheme enters final stage
The final phase of the Government's scrappage scheme began yesterday (Wednesday 24th February). Car manufacturers have been allocated shares of about 50,000 potential further orders based ...









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Poor bloke!
So close he could taste it. I’ve been there myself but as all belaegured salespeople should realise, people no matter how much money they have, rarely make it that easy for you!