Surveys

The 2013 Motor Trader Top 200 reveals a sector moving from recovery to growth mode. The report, the biggest of its kind, provides a unique snapshot of the franchised sector by collating the most recent year-end results from the country’s biggest dealer groups...

New car registrations reached a four year high in 2012, according to the SMMT. Sales for the year rose 5.3% in 2012 to 2,044,609 units, the largest year on year increase since 2001. December also closed strongly with sales for the month up 3.7%...

Demand for used cars is set to grow from 2013 following five years of decline and stagnation, but the number of dealers selling them will decline, according to new research by Trend Tracker. The market researcher predicts average sales growth of 1.5 per cent from 2013...

New car registrations fell by 4.4 per cent in 2011 to 1.941,253 units, according to the SMMT. The market was held back by private registrations, down 14.1 per cent...

The latest Motor Trader Top 50 Independent Garages sees the collective turnover exceed £2bn, some 3.5 per cent more than last year and 16 per cent more than in 2008...

Car supermarkets and other non-franchised outlets have seen increases in profitability despite static levels of sales, according to the newly published Motor Trader Top 75 Independent Used Car Dealers report.

In this article, I deal with the application of a relatively new piece of legislation, the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (“the Regulations”) and its impact upon free vehicle health checks, which can be variously described as e.g. free vehicle health checks, visual health checks, 25 point safety checks.

A new report questions whether electric cars can effectively combat the motor industry’s dependence on oil. The report “Electric Vehicles: Energy, Infrastructure and the Mobility Market in the Real World” from Trend Tracker suggests that moving from oil to electricity will represent a huge challenge. “Yet little thinking to date makes sense of the enormous challenges ahead if electric vehicles

New car sales rose 1.8 per cent in 2010 to 2,030,846 units, according to figures from the SMMT. Sales fell 18 per cent

The last financial year proved to be better than anticipated, according to the latest Motor Trader Top 200 survey. Click on headline and then Top 200 link for full report.