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Decarbonising cars: forecasts vs fantasies 14 Aug 2013 | 07:24 pm
Its great to see the latest iterations of vehicles ranging from Range Rovers to compact MPVs such as the Citroën Grand C4 Picasso shedding upwards of 100kg of GVW compared to their predecessors. See ...
Electric cars: Still scarce, and not so green 13 Aug 2013 | 07:37 pm
Electric vehicles still attract plenty more column inches than their heavily subsidised 0.1% share of UK new car registrations alone might justify. Has the vital spark died? If so, what went wrong? B...
Jaguar Land Rover: What went right? 8 Aug 2013 | 03:55 pm
A new book tells the story of an exceptional success in automotive M&A. Jaguar Land Rover Automotive plc reported revenues of £4,097m for the first quarter of the 2013/2014 fiscal year, up 13% year o...
Aftersales growth hides worrying trend 16 Jul 2013 | 03:10 pm
With the kind permission of Auto Retail Network (http://www.auto-retail.co.uk/public/16-07-2013/retail-aftersales-growth-hides-worrying-trend), we are pleased to reproduce here an article written by T...
Up against it 12 Jun 2013 | 09:05 pm
The Castrol Professional Car Servicing & Repair Trend Tracker 2013 is published in June. In the next issue of Auto Retail Bulletin we will produce a summary of some of the findings, meanwhile, here is...
Big Stuff 15 May 2013 | 11:36 pm
Were often struck by how motoring is affected by changes beyond the control of those in the industry. We call it big stuff - things like changes in legislation, tax, the economy and the ageing popu...
Servicing and repairs 15 Apr 2013 | 07:35 pm
The idea of analysing the type of work carried out by age of car was prompted by a recent survey completed by Gocompare. Its survey found 36% of motorists have put off routine servicing to save money ...
Big brother in the back seat: How will data drive motorists spending? 25 Mar 2013 | 07:27 pm
A news release from Gocompare.com reveals that over 10 million (36%) UK motorists have put off servicing their car to save cash, with over a quarter (27%) of drivers travelling more than 2,000 mile...
Gender differences 14 Mar 2013 | 03:43 pm
Between 1975 and 2011, the number of people with driving licences in the UK increased by 81% from 19.4 million to 35.2 million. The growth is principally because of a near twofold (171%) increase in w...
Shopping around online 12 Feb 2013 | 10:23 pm
We already know that new car registrations were 2.04 million units in 2012, which is an increase of 5.3% compared to 2011. However, it will be a few months before used car sales figures are released f...
