Recession, double-dip recession, depression, global depression, fiscal deficit, higher taxes, spending cuts, job losses, fuel rises. That’s a rather unpleasant [...]

We canvassed the opinions of our insiders and colleagues as to what was hot and what was definitely not at [...]

He emitted a little laugh at first but quite quickly his face turned into a grimace and he was clearly [...]

A classic illustration of how dramatically the car market has changed over the last 18 months was presented to the [...]

Car showrooms can be strange places at the best of times, either like ghost towns with tumbleweed rolling through them [...]

There is no doubt that used car buying sites such as webuyanycar or wewillbuyourcar amongst others, are very easy to [...]

Well things are really heating up out there. Despite there being an awful lot of doom and gloom car dealers [...]

Sooner or later all car retailers will need to realise that as the new car market shrinks, or at least [...]

With the scrappage scheme coming to an end soon, we’ve scoured the country and asked our fellow traders to find [...]

It’s almost that time of year again isn’t it, and I am not talking about Slade records in every store, [...]

During an economic cool off the focus of most buyers’ attention will be on value for money, making cost savings [...]

We have consistently stated this year that as the supply of used cars has diminished with the downturn in new [...]

Many sales people will have been celebrating the end of a successful September campaign with a pint or two or [...]

If we accept that there will always be good service and bad, good sales people and bad or good customers [...]

Buyers who ordered a car three or four months ago and have been given a price for their existing car [...]

What is the state of play in the world of the independent car dealer? Motor Trade Insider puts some feelers [...]

With the scrappage scheme broadly seen as a positive package for much of the market, dealers are bracing themselves for [...]

Some dealers, either buoyed by the success they are having, keen to arrest a decline or attempting to wring out [...]

People often ask me in my professional capacity what my opinion is on the value of a car, which by [...]

I popped my head around the auction last week for the first time is 3 months, I’ve attended auctions every [...]

When we hear the phrase fair deal, or good price we usually associate this with something we are buying, however [...]

With the scrappage scheme having the potential to confuse valuations of certain cars, customers face having their trade-ins undervalued if [...]

The much talked about scrappage scheme, due to start 18th May, is starting to look like the 300lb gorilla in [...]

Many main dealers we spoke to this week have told of plenty of interested people wishing to find out more [...]

With the gap between new and used car prices starting to narrow beleaguered sales people are seeing an angle they [...]