Tuesday 7th February, 2012
Automotive Consultancy, UK
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Automotive News
MERCEDES tuner AMG has been an untapped opportunity for the German maker, the firm’s sales director has said. Speaking exclusively to Car Dealer, Mike Whittington (pictured) told us the AMG brand has been a chance waiting to be exploited up until now, and Whittington plans to double AMG sales this year. ‘AMG is area of [...]
ALONG with spending the day judging the websites that should win one of our gongs, our Ewards judges were also filmed. We took them to one side and asked them for their number one top tips on how dealers can make more money from their websites. And we filmed their answers for a special video. [...]
TAIWANESE car manufacturer Luxgen is ‘looking seriously’ at the possibility of exporting to the UK, Car Dealer can reveal. Luxgen, the automobile brand established by Taiwan’s Yulon Group, has production plants in Taiwan, mainland China and the Philippines. The company has supplied its local markets with more than two million vehicles which have been produced [...]
MITSUBISHI Motors has announced its new dealer Wiltshire & Sons has opened their doors for business. The latest addition to Mitsubishi’s nationwide dealer network will provide sales, service and parts in Farnham, Surrey. The family-run business was established in 1974 and has an excellent local reputation. Barry Wiltshire, sales director, said: ‘We are all so excited [...]
THE Littlewick Green Motor Group is the latest UK business to sign up for a Suzuki franchise, it has been announced. Known as Maidenhead Suzuki, the business caters for new and used vehicle sales from its premises in Bath Road, Maidenhead, supported by servicing and parts sales at the nearby Littlewick Green Service Station on [...]
It feels like only a few days since a knackered Batch and I were stuck in a lift at the end of the first day of Bangers4BEN 2011. But today we had to put that horrible memory behind us as we had our first meeting to plan for 2012’s event with BEN. This year, B4B [...]
THE first of Kia’s new global standard Red Cube showrooms has opened at Arnold Clark Northwich in Cheshire. The red cube concept has been created to deliver the ‘most complete visual representation’ of Kia’s design-focused brand strategy. While the new showrooms will only open at major new-build sites, many of the concept’s elements will soon [...]
WE’VE been privileged enough to visit a few car factories in our time – but most of them are extremely secretive. Stickers that cover up phone camera lenses and persistent guards are usually the norm – but not when we visited Kia’s factory in Slovakia. The Zilina site builds the new Sportage, as well as [...]
MOTORBIKE retailer George White Motors Limited has called in the administrators and made most of its staff redundant. The company, which has been established for more than 50 years, is the leading independent motorcycle retailer in the UK with an annual turnover of £25m. Its headquarters are in Swindon and there are five other locations [...]
HERE ARE the most interesting and talked-about stories over the past five days, collated and summarised by us. Monday, January 16 AUCTION firm BCA has sold a one-of-a-kind Fisker for £50k. It’s the only right-hand drive example ever built. Read more JAGUAR has released details on a new engine for the XF. It’s a 160bhp [...]
