Author: Tim Rose

Dealers will open order books next week for the UK’s most cost-effective electric recent automobile, the Dacia Spring, with a special reveal planned for London’s flagship Dacia dealership. The Dacia Spring can be priced from £14,995 and the five-door electric supermini can have a fully-charged range of as much as 137 miles (WLTP mixed cycle). Sales start on June 4, with Dacia UK brand director Luke Broad set to offer it the green flag on the launch of Dacia London West, the brand’s recent flagship dealership beside the A4 at Brentford which is being run by Renault Retail Group. As…

A police raid on an independent dealership and garage within the Midlands has led police to imagine they’ve disrupted a “serious organised crime group” which was ringing beneficial high performance cars.The raid was launched after officers traced a stolen Audi S3 hot hatch to the business in Coventry.The Audi and a BMW X3 and a Volkswagen California had all been stolen in a burglary of a premises greater than 100 miles away in Hullavington, Wiltshire.Although the thieves had crashed the Volkswagen nearby, the BMW and Audi disappeared without trace, until investigations led to the Coventry business, where the Audi was…

The brand new Volkswagen Tiguan is a well-rounded family SUV that excels in several key areas and its stylish design, comfortable and tech-heavy interior make it a compelling option in its segment. It’s good job too, because the Tiguan is certainly one of Volkswagen strongest sellers within the UK, each within the fleet and personal markets, only outsold by the Golf and the Polo. Last 12 months the Tiguan accounted for 25,000 of VW UK’s 162,000 recent automobile registrations, so the success of this recent automobile is important. Customers will find that the brand new Tiguan, which reached showrooms last month, delivers…

Used automotive marketplaces Cazoo and Cinch are reported as being amongst the businesses looking for to purchase a few of Cazoo’s assets. Cazoo’s marketplace operation, including its mental property assets, are the goal of MOTORS, Sky News reports. And ahead of Cazoo’s administration, its recovery advisers Teneo have reportedly done a cope with Constellation Automotive, the parent group of Cinch and Marshall Motor Group, to purchase tackle of its leasehold properties and avoid wasting jobs. A Cazoo spokesperson said: “This marks the most recent step within the planned restructuring of Cazoo which began at the tip of last 12 months. Our recent marketplace…

Cost-cutting aimed toward saving £10 million annually from Group 1 Automotive’s UK operation are continuing to play out through the second quarter of this 12 months to deliver advantages to the underside line. Group 1 Auto UK has reduced headcount by around 10% through Q1 redundancies, and is making reductions through demonstrators, managing used automotive stocks and other efficiencies after it was slow to react to trading conditions in late 2023 and it had turn out to be inefficient in recent times. Daryl Kenningham, president and chief executive of USA-based Group 1, told AM the corporate “took a tough take a…

The UK automobile parc, the variety of cars registered for UK roads, reached 35.7 million by the tip of 2023, in line with the Society of Motor Manufacturers’ Motorparc database. That total comes after the UK’s strongest post-pandemic latest automobile market last yr. The information confirms, nevertheless, that franchised dealer networks could possibly be missing an enormous opportunity in aftersales from specializing in young cars, particularly as electrification ramps up, as two in three of all cars currently are older than seven years. Almost one in three cars has been on the road for not less than 12 years, which is…

LEVC has announced that its first passenger automotive to achieve the UK market will probably be an MPV able to seating between six and eight adults, depending on the configuration. The LEVC L380 is an opulent electric people carrier built on parent group Geely’s newest electric vehicle (EV) platform, and it’s going to be available to buy within the UK inside the following two years. Currently LEVC is best known within the UK for its TX electric taxi and its VN5 panel van based on the identical vehicle, and its UK dealer network includes AM100 groups Caffyns, Endeavour Automotive and Vertu Motors. The…