Compiling our annual Franchising Report is always a bit of a challenge. I’m not going to bore you with all the details, but one of the issues is that we rely to a large extent on the manufacturers to...

Vehicle recalls are back in the news. The decision by Toyota to pull-in 6.4 million vehicles (including 35,000 in the UK) for five separate repairs hit the front pages here.  However, there’s a...

What to make of the March sales figures? I don’t know about you, but my reaction when the numbers popped into my mail box on Friday morning was: “how much?”....

  Despite being a consumer of Apple products for four or five years I’d not been in an Apple Store until last weekend. All my purchasing had been done online.   However, a problem with an...

The relationship between manufacturers and retailers is an interesting one as manufacturers increasingly intervene in areas outside of new car sales, such as used cars and aftersales....

There are still a couple of weeks to go until registrations for the month of March are totted up, but already I’ve been hearing oddly mixed messages about how new car sales are going. I say oddly...