Car makers and their franchised dealer networks are facing a dilemma; they want to sell “green” cars that help the [...]

We always scratch our heads when we don’t receive good service, OK we probably don’t we just get upset, but [...]

As September approaches dealers are scratching their heads thinking about how to encourage sales, which have been affected by various [...]

It seems that although Toyota left no stone unturned in their pursuit of saving their reputation (spending a £3bn marketing [...]

Over the years the car trade has unfortunately been blighted by bad practices and fraudulent actions, one of the worst [...]

It appears so as less than 10 percent of the UK’s top 200 car dealers are represented on social networking [...]

Why do customers choose certain cars over others? Well that is certainly the $64,000 question and if we knew the [...]

New car sales numbers are down for July by some 13% and not likely to improve much for August. The [...]

I was having a pint with an old colleague who ‘made his money and got out’ and we were chewing [...]

|The summer moves along at a pace and on my recent camping holiday (Roman Abramovich’s yacht was booked up unfortunately) [...]

Franchised car dealers are under pressure like never before from independent repairers offering ultra-competitive deals on car servicing. We have [...]

We are always pointing out here at MTI how difficult it is going to be for dealers to find quality [...]

There is much talk at present about how the retail car sales business can improve the service it delivers to [...]

As we go into August the world of car sales has been yo-yoing, with some industry insiders saying business is [...]

The ongoing debate about whether buyers will eventually search for, locate and buy a car online without necessarily seeing and [...]

People in the motor trade love to make predictions and, of course they are not always. That said, I predict [...]

Dealers are really feeling the effect of the end of scrappage. The good times certainly rolled whilst the scheme was [...]

It appears that the motor trade is somewhat slower than other business sectors to take advantage of social media, thinking [...]

Marketing used cars has reached an exciting new stage, as the internet paves the way for more advanced classified ads; [...]

This time in 2009 dealers were gearing up for a successful new car month in September, mostly inflated it has [...]

The school summer holidays are officially here and traditionally it can be a mixed bag for the trade. If the [...]

Innovation and technological development are always at the forefront of a constantly evolving car industry. As a business we are [...]

Someone once said ‘if you always do what you have always done you will always get the same results’ (it [...]

The auctions, like the proverbial rubber ball, always come bouncing back. After weeks of the oversupply of high mileage basic [...]

As the new car parc has steadily shrunk over the last couple of years, the knock on effect and simple [...]