Turbulent is probably the best word to describe this week’s news about the economy, both in the UK and in Europe. After our story last week about Peugeot Citroen’s bank and the impact a...

News that the French government may step in to protect the credit rating of Banque PSA was not widely reported. But it should be ringing alarm bells across the whole auto retail industry, not just in...

As we all know, Renault is not the size it used to be. 2012 has seen a lot of changes within the network, to volumes and to the range of vehicles on offer....

The question of forced registrations has always been one of the worst kept secrets in the auto retail industry but suddenly, it seems, everybody is talking about it. Since Vertu Motors drew attention...

With September now over it looks likely the new car registrations for the month will, as we predicted last week, finish just fractionally ahead of where they were a year ago. Speaking to several...

Last week I wrote about the problem of customers knowing more details about the car they’re about to buy than the salesman selling said car. Following my comments, which questioned if it was...