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Used Car Dealers See Growth In Business Sales
- December 20, 2019
- Posted by: John Swift
- Category: Automotive Industry
No CommentsUsed car retailers sold more units to businesses on finance in the year to October with a 3% sector gain exactly mirroring the percentage drop in orders for brand new vehicles paid for through a point-of-sale funding package. New figures released by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that although there has been a
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Second-hand EVs Sweep SUVs From Top Spot In Used Car Demand
- December 13, 2019
- Posted by: John Swift
- Category: Automotive Industry
Auto Trader has given a dramatic insight into how priorities are shifting among used car buyers with a new report showing that the all-electric Renault ZOE is the fastest-selling second-hand model of 2019. The battery-powered EV displaced the previously unbeatable SUVs and Auto Trader went so far as to describe the breakthrough as marking `the
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Data-driven dealerships are performing better overall
- October 10, 2019
- Posted by: John Swift
- Category: Automotive Industry
Dealerships which invest in data analytics to track market changes, help in pricing part-exchanges and stock for sale and flag up vehicles which are overage do better, sell cars faster and make more profit per unit than those relying just on the management team’s experience and judgement. The clear message from an Auto Trader webinar
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Dealers Need A Digital Rewiring To Keep Pace With Industry Trends
- September 30, 2019
- Posted by: John Swift
- Category: Automotive Industry
Dealers need to carry out a `digital rewiring’ of their business to keep pace with the shift in customer buying trends and the most successful ones will adopt an omnichannel approach. This means they will provide the option of buying entirely online as well as from a physical visit or anywhere in between as they
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Diesels Could Be Making A Comeback In The Used Car Sector
- September 26, 2019
- Posted by: John Swift
- Category: Automotive Industry
Dealers who push the eco-benefits and cost advantages of the latest Euro 6 diesel could see their sales rise as the message gets home that these engines can be cleaner, and cheaper, to run than a petrol or hybrid. For the past four years (since September 2015) all-new diesel vehicles sold in the UK have
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Click Dealer’s Accelerator Pack Delivers Exciting Results
- September 23, 2019
- Posted by: John Swift
- Category: Automotive Industry, News, Products
Click Dealer services such as our Accelerator Pack have helped our partners see sales of second-hand vans soar from just over 500 in September 2016 to more than 1,300 this year, and car sales from around 12,350 to 26,250. Monthly sales graphs for Click Dealer customers show healthy and consistent growth in volume over the
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Pendragon decision shows difficulty for franchises versus independents
- September 19, 2019
- Posted by: John Swift
- Category: Automotive Industry
This week’s news that Pendragon is closing 22 of its Car Store supermarkets has put a sharp focus on the challenges facing large franchised dealer groups. One of those challenges is trying to win a larger part of the used car market from independents to compensate for dropping new sales. It is to shut 17
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Business Car Sales Drive Used Sector Finance Growth
- September 16, 2019
- Posted by: Josh Locke
- Category: Automotive Industry
Point-of-sale financing for used car sales to businesses fuelled a dramatic increase in the total sector with the second-hand market comfortably accelerating ahead of the new car sector. The latest data from the Finance & Leasing Association show the POS consumer used car finance market reported new business in July up eight per cent by
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Diesel, Petrol And Electric In Top Three Fastest Sellers
- August 29, 2019
- Posted by: John Swift
- Category: Automotive Industry
Good news if you have a three-year-old SEAT Alhambra MPV diesel/automatic on your forecourt as the chances are it will fly off faster than just about anything else in stock other than it’s VW sister model, the Sharan, or in a surprise twist, the Renault Zoe EV. All three feature at the top of the
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Former Employer Fined For Staff Data Protection Breach
- July 29, 2019
- Posted by: John Swift
- Category: Automotive Industry, News, Tips For Dealers
Car dealers are being urged to make sure their data protection systems are robust and working after an employee of one motor firm was sentenced to prison for accessing personal information without permission – and his former employer faced huge costs as a result. In the first case of its kind, brought up earlier this
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