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Four Drive Motor Retail site locations are celebrating 2024 Vauxhall Customer Excellence Awards. Drive Hartlepool achieved the Gold award for the tenth year running while three other sites maintained their Silver status. Drive Redcar has held Silver status for seven consecutive years, while Drive Stockton-on-Tees and Drive Bury St Edmunds have maintained their Silver status for five and four years, ...

Drive Motor Retail’s MG site in Leicester has expanded its partnership with local race team, Sharpe Racing, becoming the headline sponsor of the entire team. This sponsorship will see Drive branding featured across team vehicles and official team wear. The partnership builds upon the collaboration which started in 2023 with MG ZR racer Chase Sharpe, who is a member of ...

Drive Motor Retail has won a string of bodyshop awards in a series of events. Their Darlington team won the Stellantis Manufacture “Stellar” Accident Repair Programme Award 2024, and the Drive Bury St Edmunds site secured the Southeast Enterprise “Best Customer Repair Partner” Award 2024. In recent years, Drive Motor Retail has continued to excel, with a member of the ...

Drive Motor Retail is the first multi-franchise company to partner with Blue Light Card. The partnership showcases Drive Motor Retail’s commitment to supporting the emergency services, NHS, social care sector, teachers and armed forces. Blue Light Card will offer frontline workers exclusive savings through the new partnership. Michael Breen, operations director at Drive said: “Our partnership with the Blue Light ...

Drive Motor Retail has opened a standalone MG dealership in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. The site is the area’s only franchised MG dealership and is offering used and new sales. The site will also offer servicing and repair facilities, including MOT testing and MG parts and accessories, which will be located at Drive’s Hyundai dealership in Scarborough. Carl Prescott, Drive MG ...

Drive Motor Retail becomes joint headline sponsor for local MG Racer Drive Motor Retail has moved into motor sport promotion becoming a joint headline sponsor of the Nottingham-based MG ZR Racer Chase Sharpe. In 2022, Sharpe won the UK Kart Series Championship and the UK Plate in the Synergy Honda Cadet Extreme category. He then switched to Junior Prokart and ...

Drive Motor Retail has won five of the 22 Vauxhall Customer Excellence awards for 2023. Its Bury St Edmunds, Stockton-on-Tees, Leamington Spa, Redcar, and Hartlepool sites were recognised by Vauxhall for their dedication to delivering a consistently first-class customer experience. It said this is the eighth consecutive year that Drive have been awarded a Customer Excellence award, as well as ...

Drive Motor Retail’s Bury St Edmunds dealership is supporting the town’s Rugby Union club by providing a vehicle for its community programme. The car will be used by Bury RUFC’s community team, which coaches approximately 2,000 children at 50 schools across the area each year. The team also runs holiday camps to provide opportunities for children with an interest in ...

Drive Motor Retail has acquired Yorkshire-based dealer Minstergate for an undisclosed sum. Minstergate, which operates MG and Hyundai sites in York, Hull and Scarborough, turned in pre-tax profits of £1.6m on turnover of £57.5m in the year to December 2021. The acquisition introduces three Hyundai dealerships into the Drive group, whilst complimenting the company’s three existing MG dealers in Bristol, ...

Drive Motor Retail has appointed a new group finance and sales compliance manager. Chris Blake has moved from his previous group training role within the business and will oversee the enhancement of Drive’s sales processes, including an expansion to the finance options available amid high customer demand. Blake has 25 years’ experience in motor retail and joined Drive in 2015 ...