Author: Aimee Turner
A brand new initiative geared toward improving privacy protections within the used vehicle sector has been launched by the National Association of Motor Auctions (NAMA). The Data Deletion and Privacy Protection Certificate was developed with input from auction operators, compliance specialists and technology providers. It’s designed to set standards around how personal data stored in vehicles is handled, covering areas including deletion procedures, auditability and reporting, operational workflows and governance aligned with UK GDPR. Jonathan Butler, legal counsel on the Vehicle Remarketing Association (VRA) which is supporting thr initiative, said: “Legal evaluation and regulatory expectations clarify organisations handling vehicles – including…
Marshall Motor Group has been appointed as an official retail and aftersales partner for Geely Auto in Dartford, Kent. Trading as Geely Dartford Marshall, the brand new franchise will operate from The Bridge Business Park and can offer latest and used Geely Auto vehicles in addition to aftersales services including maintenance, real parts and accessories. The primary UK model for Geely – whose parent company Geely Holdings owns Volvo Cars, Polestar and Lotus in addition to the industrial vehicle Farizon brand – was the EX5, an all-electric SUV which launched in late 2025. The road-up is about to expand with the Starray…
iVendi’s chief executive James Tew talked to Automotive Management in regards to the motor finance opportunities for dealers and why rebuilding trust through transparency, earlier commission disclosure and safer ways to fund value-added products could mean the difference between profitable growth and the following compliance headache. In a post-redress world where consumer confidence is low, what does maximising motor finance opportunities actually mean for dealers in 2026? Primary is transparency. If people lack trust, then the one method to regain it’s by being transparent. That’s actually modified since commission disclosure, which got here into force in 2024. But there remains to…
Aimée Turner is deputy editor at Automotive Management, where she helps steer the every day and long-range editorial agenda for one in all the UK’s most-read B2B titles serving automotive retail. Award-winning and deadline-hardened, she specialises within the parts of the industry where the stakes are highest and the jargon is thickest: technology, market development and the business model shifts that resolve who thrives and who simply survives. With 20+ years in journalism across automotive and aviation, Aimée has built a repute for turning complex industry change into clear, usable insight. At Automotive Management she focuses on the EV transition,…
Aimée Turner is deputy editor at Automotive Management, where she helps steer the each day and long-range editorial agenda for one in all the UK’s most-read B2B titles serving automotive retail. Award-winning and deadline-hardened, she specialises within the parts of the industry where the stakes are highest and the jargon is thickest: technology, market development and the business model shifts that determine who thrives and who simply survives. With 20+ years in journalism across automotive and aviation, Aimée has built a status for turning complex industry change into clear, usable insight. At Automotive Management she focuses on the EV transition,…
– The petrol Renault Clio has jumped to the highest of the sub-£10,000 retail margin chart after months of SUV dominance- Hatchbacks have been climbing since December and the Clio is the clearest sign that compact stock is driving profit- Competition for clean, retail-ready Clio stock is heating up, last 12 months’s profit profile already shifting. – The petrol Renault Clio has jumped to the highest of the sub-£10,000 retail margin chart after months of SUV dominance – Hatchbacks have been climbing since December and the Clio is the clearest sign that compact stock is driving profit – Competition for clean, retail-ready Clio stock is…
The brand new LCV market enjoyed a 1.7% end of 2025 boom in recent registrations, writes Ken Brown, LCV valuations editor at Solera Cap HPI. There have been 315,422 recent LCVs registered in 2025, that’s 36,412 fewer recent LCVs, representing a ten.3% decline available in the market in comparison with 2024, and 5,578 units in need of the SMMT’s end of 12 months forecast, Registrations were down month on month from January to November. Nonetheless, in December, the shortest month of the 12 months for LCV sales activity and with many key staff taking prolonged Christmas breaks, by some means there…
Range-extended electric vehicles are having their moment and nowhere more so than China. There, ‘REEV’ or ‘EREV’ models are booming because they answer a really real consumer objection: not range anxiety a lot as charging anxiety. The recipe is easy. Drive the wheels with an electrical motor for the quiet, punchy, one-pedal EV experience, then carry a small petrol engine that, somewhat than powering the wheels, acts as a generator to top up the battery when needed. Remember the Vauxhall Ampera of last decade, anyone? Or the BMW i3? Today that formula has helped create a few of China’s hottest family SUVs. And…
Aimée Turner is deputy editor at Automotive Management, where she helps steer the each day and long-range editorial agenda for one in every of the UK’s most-read B2B titles serving automotive retail. Award-winning and deadline-hardened, she specialises within the parts of the industry where the stakes are highest and the jargon is thickest: technology, market development and the business model shifts that determine who thrives and who simply survives. With 20+ years in journalism across automotive and aviation, Aimée has built a status for turning complex industry change into clear, usable insight. At Automotive Management she focuses on the EV…
Aimée Turner is deputy editor at Automotive Management, where she helps steer the every day and long-range editorial agenda for certainly one of the UK’s most-read B2B titles serving automotive retail. Award-winning and deadline-hardened, she specialises within the parts of the industry where the stakes are highest and the jargon is thickest: technology, market development and the business model shifts that resolve who thrives and who simply survives. With 20+ years in journalism across automotive and aviation, Aimée has built a popularity for turning complex industry change into clear, usable insight. At Automotive Management she focuses on the EV transition,…