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Motor Trade Radio is a weekly podcast, powered by MOTORS, focused on the needs of today’s franchised and independent car dealerships, as well as suppliers and OEMs. Available to stream wherever you are, it presents a blend of industry headlines, interviews, expert opinion, top tips and entertainment wrapped up in a chat-show style platform. Join co-hosts Philip Nothard and Curtis Hutchinson for #AllTheChatterThatMatters

Mar 25, 2017

On this Saturday’s episode of MotortradeRadio.com, Philip Nothard and Derek Blair discuss the latest headlines from Motortrader.com including real life testing carried out by Which? on diesel cars that revealed big variations among leading brands.
They also discuss research from Dealerweb suggesting the average purchase price of a GAP policy was down 1% in 2016 compared to 2015.


In other news, Ford is offering its premium Vignale sub-brand to all of its 466 UK dealers having previously restricted sales to its top-end FordStore network and Porsche Centre West London has become the latest dealer to be confirmed for The London Motor Show.


They also discuss the exclusive interview with Sytner CEO Darren Edwards looking at the reasons behind the recent acquisition of the CarShop and how the group is achieving record growth.


Finally, Derek talks about his *BONUS EPISODE* which aired on Friday 24th, with Zara Ross, CEO of BEN, the Automotive industry's charity.