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Cambria Automobiles CEO Mark Lavery won the Industry Personality of the Year Award at the NFDA Spring Ball, which was held at The Grove in Hertfordshire. Lavery scooped the accolade because of his work to drive innovation within the industry and also to promote the NFDA to dealers Dealers, manufacturers and senior automotive stakeholders attended the Spring Ball. The manufacturer ...

Lexus was voted the top franchise in the UK in the latest National Franchised Dealer Association Dealer Attitude Survey Winter 2021. Dealers, asked ‘how would you rate your manufacturer overall on a scale of 1 to 10?’, returned an average of 6.6, 0.1 higher than six months ago. Lexus (9.8), Kia (9.2) and Toyota (8.9) were the top performers, while ...

Navendu Mishra, the Labour MP for Stockport, has visited Lookers Skoda in Stockport. The visit was part of the National Franchised Dealers Assocation’s Parliamentary Engagement Programme to connect franchised dealers with their local MPs business support for dealers. The NFDA launched the engagement programme in 2017 to raise awareness of the role of the retail automotive sector and provide dealers ...

NFDA’s Government backed Electric Vehicle Approved (EVA) accreditation scheme has reached 300 approved dealers. To celebrate the ‘300 mark’, a #LovEVA campaign was launched on social media, coinciding with Valentine’s week. The campaign was designed to provide added exposure to the 300 approved dealers, raise awareness of EVA amongst consumers and promote ‘Charge Confidence’, a message coined to foster positive ...

The NFDA’s Drive My Career ran the fourth edition of its ‘Apprentice Takeover’ to raise awareness of the apprenticeship opportunities in the automotive industry. As part of the #DMCApprenticeTakeover campaign, Drive My Career members were encouraged to take to their social media channels to share their apprentices’ success stories. Marshall Motor Group won for the fourth consecutive time “Best Engagement ...

Sytner Audi dealerships have lined up to receive Electric Vehicle Approved (EVA) accreditation in recent weeks. Slough, West London, Reading, Leeds, Nottingham, Derby and Bradford Audi are now on the scheme. The Electric Vehicle Approved (EVA) scheme has been developed by the National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA) to recognise retailers’ excellence in the electric vehicle sector. EVA is endorsed by ...

Lipscomb Canterbury Volvo has become the latest dealer to be accredited on the Electric Vehicle Accreditation (EVA) by the National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA). The accreditation recognises how the retailer educated customers about the move towards electric vehicles ahead of the government’s plan to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030. The EVA aims to encourage ...

The past year has been an extraordinary one with dealers having to adapt to a rapidly changing market. Cazoo has spent the year sponsoring major sports events to build its brand in the UK and Europe, buying in logistics, refurbishment, fleet and leasing services to ramp up sales. It is joined by cinch (owned by Constellation which also owns BCA ...

The National Franchised Dealer Association has highlighted the threat to intra-brand competition as the key threat from the introduction of agency models for dealers. The threat was outlined in the latest Autofocus from Cox Automotive. Sue Robinson, chief executive of the NFDA said preserving healthy intra-brand competition and allowing OEMs to adapt, innovate and drive efficiencies were not mutually exclusive. ...

Dealers are now beginning to see an acceleration in interest in electric vehicles as carmakers gear up to meet the government’s net zero emissions by 2050. This month we saw The National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA) reveal that it has now accredited over 200 dealers on its Electric Vehicle Approved (EVA) scheme, which has been reopened. Volvo is one carmaker ...