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With 9,549 CV units leaving British factories in the first half of this year, UK CV production saw it’s best first half in a decade, including a year-to-date output increase of 47.4%. According to the latest figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), the month of June itself were 32.7% above […]

  Mitchell Group, serving Cheshire, Wirral and the North Dales, celebrated a rise in profits in the year to December, bringing their 2019 pre-tax profts up 13.6% to an encouraging £2.4m on turnover of £57.3m. While new car sales declined 1.5%, customers seemed instead to be responding to the continuing uncertainty by turning to used […]

Positive news continues in the light commercial market as competitive deals see continued demand for Light Commercial Vehicles. In what is usually a low volume month for sales, August saw the the eighth consecutive month of growth for LCV registrations, with a hugely encouraging 41% increase in sales. As many as 23,120 light vehicles were […]

Despite current economic uncertainty and “challenging trading conditions”, Lloyd family-run Motor Group saw their pre-tax profits rise 17.9% to 9.8m in 2018, defying the odds to see a gross profit of 6.7% across the group. Lloyd Motor Group has eight franchises across 21 dealerships, employing almost 1,000 people across the North of England and Scotland. […]

More than a hundred people travelled to the inaugural “Women In Motoring” event that took place at Bonhams Auction House in Bond Street on November 29th, to hear four women from across the automotive world speak about their experiences, successes and frustrations in the industry. In the first of a series of talks championing women […]

New survey shows a third of new car buyers in the UK don’t shop around. New research by Hyundai Motor UK is showing a new trend in new car sales: a third of customers plump for the first car they see, with a half of all UK shoppers buying one of the first two cars […]