Saturday Morning Show - 21st January 2017
Jan 21, 2017
On this week’s MotortradeRadio.com Philip Nothard and Jim Reid
from JimReidVehiclesales discuss the week’s headlines from
Motortrader.com.
As College Harwoods Group plans to buy land from Chichester College
for a new Jaguar Land Rover business in Pulborough, Philip and Jim
look at the novel ways dealer groups are locating land for new
showrooms.
They also discuss new research by Marketing Delivery that claims
dealers are missing key data out on a third of their customer
aftersales records. And new research into 1,000 motorists by the
NFDA that shows buyers are increasingly prepared to buy cars online
when they are backed up by the reassurance of a franchised
dealer.
In another news, Volvo Car UK will launch an online car sales
channel in Q2 as part of a strategic move to significantly grow UK
sales to become the biggest market in Europe, and Swansway Motor
Group is dropping its Swansway Select non franchise used car
branding and replacing it with Swansway Motor Match.
Plus, the NFDA has welcomed the Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech
outlining the government’s negotiating objectives for exiting the
EU.
Finally, legal firm Lawgistics says it has seen a number of dealers
on the wrong side of the law when facing test drive speeding
tickets.