Kia’s order bank in the UK for March, the most important month in the sales calendar, is running 15% ahead of last year, according to Kia Motors UK president and CEO Paul Philpott...

Vertu is trading strongly with new and used car sales and aftersales all showing growth. In a pre-close trading update it said its performance for the year ended 28 February...

Marshall Motor Group has appointed Peter Johnson as a non-executive director. Johnson has wide industry experience having done stints as chief executive at Marshall from 1990 before moving on...

Road minister Stephen Hammond has agreed to an overhaul of the DVLA to make it more efficient for the motor trade. The review, which was launched in October last year, recommends that the agency should improve...

Used car valuation guides Glass’s and CAP are forecasting a stable market for used car prices in coming months. Derren Martin, senior editor, Black Book said volumes were not likely to increase sufficiently to make...

Mitsubishi Motors in the UK has handed two 4x4s over to volunteers in Somerset to help with the flood relief effort. Somerset County Council needed more vehicle support and approached Mitsubishi for help...

The current shortage of used cars in the wholesale market should ease in coming months. That’s the view of Roger Woodward, managing director of remarketing specialist, CD Auction Group...

Capquest has bought motor finance firm British Credit Trust (BCT), taking in the BCT brand, £10m loan portfolio, data and systems. Capquest wants to expand into car finance and will take over...

More people plan to change their car in 2014 than at any point in the past five years. That’s one of the conclusions of the AA annual Car Purchase Index which found that a quarter (27%) of respondents...

Citroen UK has appointed Jeremy Smith as its new head of commercial vehicles and business sector operations. Smith succeeds Scott Michael, who is leaving Citroën to join Motability Operations...