In our quest for a perfect world, we at MTI try and see the positives in everything. The reason we [...]

This year has been a surprising one for the trade in many ways. Even the most optimistic of car dealers [...]

Unfortunately there are several factors which point towards car dealers experiencing a challenging time next year and we have already [...]

Who said customer care doesn’t exist anymore? In these recessionist days (is that a word? – no, editor) we constantly [...]

Confusion continues to reign supreme in the offices of the professional trade guides. After Managing Editor of Glasses Guide, Adrian [...]

The world is changing, we can see it everywhere we look and a lot of that change is driven by [...]

I have been doing the rounds this week canvassing opinion on how the market is, where it is going and [...]

As fuel prices rise steadily and the value of oil continues on an upward spiral as we climb out of [...]

It’s funny how the summer seems to end so abruptly and as September starts the roads are again filling up [...]

With the ever increasing rise in values of used cars this year, we have often highlighted the rapidly diminishing gap [...]

Shock horror, the BBC and other ‘news’ outlets have suddenly realised that used car prices are on the increase, well [...]

Dealers, buoyed by the success of the scrappage scheme are becoming increasingly nervous about what happens when the money runs [...]

The scrappage clock is ticking and many dealers are becoming nervous about what happens when the incentive runs out of [...]

One obvious effect of an economic downturn is that it nearly always leads to people looking harder to find bargains. [...]

If you check out our archives page you’ll see that this is MTIs 1000th article and it perhaps offers an [...]

Just a bit of a “heads up” regarding the new car registration figures and the scrappage scheme. According to the [...]

Well it’s finally here and after the goodwill created by the scrappage scheme there will be many happy customers driving [...]

“Europe will be out of the recession by early next year” one economic analyst said on Sky news last week, [...]

Whilst attending one of the many car auctions I get to attend on a weekly basis it was curious to [...]

Dealers are once again looking forward to new registration time, perhaps more than they could have reasonably been expected to [...]

So far this year, the climate in car sales has been nowhere near as bleak as had been predicted at [...]

Thanks to the power of the web consumers are better informed and savvier than ever. They are also feeling far [...]

In these hard times wherever you look along the high street, on-line or even in restaurants and supermarkets, there is [...]

Thankfully a credit crunch, recession or even, dare we say it, full blown depression will hopefully only happen a few [...]

Many trade commentators are saying that dealers looking to replenish used car stocks would be best served at the auctions. [...]