General News

New car sales fell by 3.5 per cent in July, the thirteenth consecutive month of decline, according to figures published by the SMMT.

Toyota customers will be able to communicate with Toyota dealerships through a new social networking site. Toyota Motor Corporation has linked with Salesforce.com to form Toyota Friend, a private social network for Toyota customers.

General Motors Europe (GME) turned in losses of $1.8bn (£1.1bn) in 2010. In the fourth quarter GME had a loss before interest and taxes of $600m, an improvement on the loss of $800m in the same quarter a year ago.

LCV sales volumes rose 50 per cent in January compared to a month earlier as buyers returned in droves to auction houses. The average value of an LCV sold at BCA in January also increased, up 3.8 per cent or £155 to £4,222...

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The government's scrappage scheme, which goes live today, fell short of what the industry requested during its intense lobbying process earlier this year.

Volumes of work going through bodyshops have dropped for the third year in a row.

Consumers increasingly turned to the used car market in March , buying their car on finance, according to figures released by the Finance and Leasing Association (FLA).

The Road Haulage Association and BVRLA are the latest bodies to back the proposed scrappage scheme.

A third of motorists consider car clubs a viable alternative to car ownership, according to a recent survey by TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk.