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JCT600, ranked 12th in the Motor Trader Top 200, has reported an 8.8 per cent decline in operating profit in 2007.

Caffyns, ranked 52 in the Motor Trader Top 200, nearly doubled pre-tax profits in the year ended 31 March 2008 despite making a trading loss.

Makes and models is one of those Ronseal-type magazines in that it does exactly what is says on the tin and luckily for us they've expanded into TV. As host Jennifer Murphy puts it: “You'll meet some of the most beautiful women in the world and see some of the most exotic and expensive cars.” Think Men & Motors but with a budget.

Tony Bramall, a non-executive director at Lookers, has increased his stake in the dealer group to 22.3 per cent, taking him closer to the threshold that would require him to make a formal takeover bid.

What do you get if you combine a leggy blonde in short shorts, a broken down motor and a Candid Camera-style tv show? Why it's THIS RATHER CHEEKY CLIP that's what. Good old Jeremy Beadle was never this saucy and more's the pity judging by this effort. A generation of eighties adolescent men are currently cursing into their computer screens.

Citroen must have been off its rocker back in the eighties in order to come up with this Grace Jones ad for the CITROEN CX. Take one CX, one desert, one bonkers pop star and one garage-sized Grace Jones bust and what do you get? Truly one of the maddest car adverts of all time, that's what.

HR Owen used last week's AGM to formally welcome Bentley's decision to acquire a major stake in the listed company and predicted a strong second quarter for the downsized group.

Inchcape has reported an increase in total international sales of 6.5 per cent for the 2007 fiscal year, with sales from continuing operations up 7.2 per cent.

Lookers has credited its diversified business model for enabling it to prosper in tough trading conditions.

Nissan get's all Godfather in THIS US CLIP, which aims to highlight the toughness of its SUVs. A scantily-clad gangster's moll kisses her mobster goodbye as he leaves with a holdall full of cash. He gets into his Nissan and starts the engine but someone's wired a bomb to the ignition. She screams in horror as it detonates, will he survive? Of course he does.