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GWM UK has launched a new ORA 03 model lineup for 2025, with revised pricing starting from £24,995 and a new range-topping GT variant. The range will be available from any of the 35+ GWM UK retailers across the UK. The new versions will go on sale for pre-orders from 21 January, with first customer handovers expected in March. The ...

Automotive specialists Rhino Group have launched Oceros, an immersive marketing agency providing full-service, bespoke marketing services for retailer groups and OEMs. Kieran Nizzer (pictured), Managing Director at Oceros, said: “As the consumer purchasing landscape evolves, Oceros is perfectly placed to apply fresh thinking to industry-wide challenges, leading a new generation of automotive marketing strategies with results at the heart of ...

Activate Accident Repair has opened a new bodyshop in Warrington. The new site is the business’ largest repair centre to date at 24,000 ft2 with the capacity to repair up to 18 vehicles a day. It joins existing outlets in Birmingham, Glasgow and Leeds. The business is part of Activate Group a group of companies that includes Motor Repair Network, ...

Snows Peugeot celebrated its performance in this year’s Guild of Gold Lion awards. The annual awards recognise exemplary levels of sales, customer satisfaction and business excellence across Peugeot’s 183-strong UK network. Snows Basingstoke received the Guild of Gold Lion award after placing in the top 25 of Peugeot’s best performing UK Retailers. The retailer’s Business Centre is recognised as the ...

New car registrations in May saw an eight-fold increase in May with 156,737 vehicles registered compared to May last year with showrooms temporarily closed because of the pandemic. The market was driven by fleet which rose twice as fast as the private sector as the commercial sector accelerated the long-postponed renewal of company cars. Large fleets accounted for 50.7% of ...

  Lookers has opened a £4.6m Jaguar Land Rover centre in Bishop’s Stortford. The facility, the newest Jaguar Land Rover dealership in the country, employs 42 staff. Lookers has Jaguar dealerships in Aston Clinton, Belfast, Glasgow and West London. It has a bigger presence with Land Rover with dealerships in Belfast,  Bishop Stortford, Chelmsford, Aston Clinton, Colchester, Glasgow (2), South, ...

Used car prices on forecourts rose for the 14th consecutive month in May, driven by the growing imbalance of supply and demand in the market. According to the latest results from the Auto Trader Retail Price Index, which is based on daily pricing analysis of circa 900,000 vehicles, the average price of a used car in May was £13,973: a ...

Cazoo is to become the main shirt sponsor of Welsh Rugby Union, beginning in July 2021. The brand will feature on the men’s and women’s pathway and senior jerseys, shorts and training gear with branding at Principality Stadium. The online retailer is one of the UK’s most active sports sponsors across football (Everton, Aston Villa & the EFL), cricket (The ...

SEAT has become the latest brand within the Volkswagen Group UK stable to announced aftercare plans to improve service retention within the dealer networks. Seat has launched its All-in service, aftercare plan, which is available on SEAT cars aged 3-6 years old, under 100k miles and with a 2.0L engine or less It includes two services and MOTs, two years’ ...

Subscription firm Mycardirect, which was launched in 2020 by CEO Duncan Chumley, has been joined by a sister company Myvandirect for light commercial vehicles. The group, which now has a fleet size of 500 cars and vans, said that vans had always been a “key element” of the Mycardirect business model but stronger than expected demand meant it was added ...