Barry’s Blog….will ‘the pout’ pull-in showroom traffic?
Range Rover has worked hard – and with success – at countering its expensive, gas-guzzling image. I hope the appointment of Victoria Beckham as a new design executive doesn’t undo...
Read moreYou probably felt you had wasted 90-minutes. You could have been patrolling the showroom in case other like-minded individuals had decided that drooling over cars was more entertaining than following...
Read moreCar buyers and retailers alike have some tricky questions to ponder this week if, as seems likely, the chancellor, decides to increase VAT to 20% in his budget on Tuesday. Both the questions and the...
Read moreThe news that China’s Changan Automobile has announced plans to set-up a research and development centre in Nottingham will, I am sure, please everyone in the East Midlands. And that will...
Read moreMercedes’ decision to partner the German football team in the World Cup could leave English retailers of the brand with a tricky problem. German Mercedes retailers all have plans to show...
Read moreManufacturers will feel they can live with new rules … what about dealers? The European Commission adopted new rules on Thursday intended to lower the price which motorists pay for repairing...
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