With the ever increasing rise in values of used cars this year, we have often highlighted the rapidly diminishing gap [...]
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BBC – Behind with the news
Shock horror, the BBC and other ‘news’ outlets have suddenly realised that used car prices are on the increase, well [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Things may get worse before they get better
Dealers, buoyed by the success of the scrappage scheme are becoming increasingly nervous about what happens when the money runs [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Scrappage – what happens next?
The scrappage clock is ticking and many dealers are becoming nervous about what happens when the incentive runs out of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Small car equals small profits
One obvious effect of an economic downturn is that it nearly always leads to people looking harder to find bargains. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The 1000th article
If you check out our archives page you’ll see that this is MTIs 1000th article and it perhaps offers an [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Nissan, Mercedes and BMW doing well without scrappage
Just a bit of a “heads up” regarding the new car registration figures and the scrappage scheme. According to the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »New registrations bringing a smile back
Well it’s finally here and after the goodwill created by the scrappage scheme there will be many happy customers driving [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Why a buoyant supercar market could be good for everyone
“Europe will be out of the recession by early next year” one economic analyst said on Sky news last week, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Used car values, auction fever and the appreciating asset
Whilst attending one of the many car auctions I get to attend on a weekly basis it was curious to [...]
Read the rest of this entry »No time to think of what might have been
Dealers are once again looking forward to new registration time, perhaps more than they could have reasonably been expected to [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Car dealers feeling more satisfied with their manufacturer
So far this year, the climate in car sales has been nowhere near as bleak as had been predicted at [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Tourists face car hire shortage
As we reorted last week (Motor trade recession may effect holiday car rentals) holidaymakers in parts of the UK and [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The choice is frightening but so is the profitability
Thanks to the power of the web consumers are better informed and savvier than ever. They are also feeling far [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Is main dealer servicing cost effective?
In these hard times wherever you look along the high street, on-line or even in restaurants and supermarkets, there is [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Remove scrappage sales and Chevrolet are run away leaders
The headline figure of 157,149 new car registrations in July was 2.4 percent up on 2008. A modest but nevertheless [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Motor trade recession may effect holiday car rentals
Thankfully a credit crunch, recession or even, dare we say it, full blown depression will hopefully only happen a few [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Auction houses doing good business as prices edge higher
Many trade commentators are saying that dealers looking to replenish used car stocks would be best served at the auctions. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Now is the time to buy but it’s a hard sell
There’s no doubt that car dealers are becoming increasingly frustrated trying to work out how the market is likely to [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Blue Laguna owner – Just why are Renault doing so badly?
Why is Renault struggling? In the UK particularly their performance of late has been nothing short of disastrous, despite the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »After-market could benefit most from the downturn
Although in the states the recession may be biting deeper and car sales being hit even harder than here, what [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Motor Trade Insider reporting from the front-line
Adrian Rushmore, managing editor of industry valuation guide Glasses, states, in a recent press release, that “used car activity is [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The road back to new cars
As we have been regularly pointing out on Motor Trade Insider, the gap between new and nearly new, in terms [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Making predictions is harder than ever
It has been generally acknowledged that few, if any, commentators whether inside or out of the motoring business have successfully [...]
Read the rest of this entry »General Motors – the price of failure
The fact that there are CEO’s all over the world that have collected fat cat bonuses and built up massive [...]
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According to recent research used car buyers are most likely to buy a blue or black 5 door hatchback which is 3 years or older. Does that sound like you? 





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