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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 ...

  Caffyns turned in a strong performance in the year to March 2021 with profits of £1.4m compared to £103,000 last time on turnover down 16% to £165.1m. Like nearly all dealer groups during the year it cut costs, invested in digital and availed of government schemes to help the business get through the pandemic with showrooms closed in successive ...

Sytner group chairman Roger Penske (pictured) is set to be honoured at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speedby Mastercard for his career in motor racing. Sytner Group, part of Penske, will have an ALPINA stand onsite, showcasing the latest range of vehicles. Penske, who will be one of the VIP guests at this year’s event, will be honoured as part ...