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Experienced automotive sector professional, Paul Jordan, has joined RAPID RTC, bringing over 40 years of seasoned knowledge and leadership in automotive business development to his new role, the company has announced. With widespread experience collaborating with clients, Jordan joins RAPID RTC in the UK as Sales Manager, National Accounts, where his responsibilities will include working with dealer groups nationwide. Transparency ...

Pinewood Technologies have released their latest integration with Volkswagen Group, supporting dealers to manage leads and boost sales. New leads can be picked up immediately by the sales team. Pinewood DMS automatically creates a CRM record and sales opportunity for all fleet and retail enquiries from VWG, enabling them to respond to enquiries faster and more efficiently. Volkswagen Group also ...

In January, there were 7.4 million advert views of brand-new cars on Auto Trader, a 69% increase on pre-pandemic January 2020. Thia also marks the highest number of views recorded in a single month. It equates to almost 10,000 views of a new car every hour. January also saw a sharp increase in the number of individual users viewing a new ...

CD Auction Group has removed listing and sellers fees on its dealer-to-dealer Vehicle Tradex platform. Under the support package, the only fees dealers will face is a £50 fee if they withdraw the vehicle before sale. Techinspect independently inspects all the cars and vans on Vehicle Tradex. As a result, the seller is indemnified against any visible damage, not picked-up ...

The ECB today announced a new, multi-year partnership with Cinch. The ecommerce business becomes the new Principal Partner to England Cricket from May 2021. The brand will be sported on the kit of the England team across Test, ODI and T20 appearances. Cinch’s partnership includes and supports all England cricket teams including Men’s, Women’s, England Lions, Disability and England Age ...

G3 Vehicle Auctions is launching a Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles, light commercial vehicle and motorbike auction centre in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The G3 Leeds facility has the capacity to process 20,000 vehicles a year through the 4-acre site. The centre will host both physical and online auctions and includes a 200-vehicle undercover hall and the latest 360° imaging studio on-site. The ...

Autorola UK is offering dealers a white label version of its online wholesale used car sales portal to support dealers in disposing of unwanted or over age stock. The portal gets dealer’s used cars in front of other wholesale buyers digitally without any of the transport costs. Peugeot, Citroen, Skoda, SEAT, VW Commercials, Audi, Nissan, Renault, Kia, Hyundai, and Volvo ...

    Motor finance lenders continue to tighten their lending criteria to customers with near prime taking a bigger slice of the market. That’s the view of Startline Motor Finance CEO Paul Burgess who believes near-prime personal contract purchase (PCP) is set to be the next area to see growth in 2021. The company says that it saw an increase ...

The struggle over the sale of value added products (VAPs) from online car, van and motorcycle retailing could be over, says iVendi. The company is seeing very high levels of penetration from a new way of including VAPs within the digital customer journey, although cautions that these initial results are only being seen among a small sample of dealers. CEO ...

BCA has announced two new remarketing deals, in both the dealer and leasing markets. Firstly, it has announced a new three-year exclusive remarketing partnership with TrustFord to run until 2024. TrustFord remarkets around 25,000 vehicles annually with BCA, offering a broad range of stock including cars and light commercial vehicles. John Leeman, TrustFord Group Operations Director said:“BCA offer a comprehensive ...