Much talk in the national press this week about the production shutdowns at Japanese owned car plants in the UK – but it’s important to realise that European (and US) carmakers have been...

Several lessons (or ‘learning points’ as we now have to call them) to be taken away from the Auto Retail Network Used Car Profit Clinic held on Friday. As always, the level of...

I probably shouldn’t admit this but I can remember when there was real excitement generated by the plate-change: midnight parties at dealerships, customers eager to be the first in the street...

I find it wonderfully ironic that Tesco launches into used car retailing within a month of Autoquake going into administration and in the same week that the Office of Fair Trading handed out a major...

Those of you who have met Rob Foulston, now the former-chief executive of the RMIF, will know that he is not a man to keep his opinions to himself. So, the rather terse press statement announcing his...

At the risk of stating the obvious, doing business through a recession isn’t easy. The demise of online used-car retailer Autoquake, this week, proves that. Or does it? Just because visitors to...