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...

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You 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...

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Car 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...

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The 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...

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Mercedes’ 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...

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Manufacturers 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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