Toyota’s successful three-year fixed price insurance offer is being extended to 31 March, giving customers the opportunity to obtain insurance cover with the same price guaranteed for three years.
For example, the award-winning Aygo X Hybrid can be insured for just £450 a year with the offer, while the annual price for the Yaris hatchback and Yaris Cross hybrids is £450 and the offer is available on nine models, including self-charging hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles.
One of the UK’s largest independent tyre wholesalers is expanding into Wales after acquiring a warehouse for £7.75 million.
Oak Group Holdings supplies more than 6,000 tyre fitters and retailers with tyres, consumables and accessories and has seven warehouses across the UK, able to hold more than 900,000 tyres in stock and added added a 155,150 sq ft logistics site on the Queensway Meadows industrial estate in Newport.
Meanwhile, ATS Euromaster is winding down its UK outlets, shutting nearly 90, and selling others to different operators.
The company blamed difficult trading conditions for having to lay off over 700 staff but hopes some of these will be offered jobs in other locations.
SAIC-owned MG Motor has delivered its one millionth customer car in Europe.
MG returned to its ‘UK home market’ in 2011 with the MG6 and since then has become an increasingly prominent and popular brand across Europe and over a third of European sales were registered in Britain.
To celebrate LEGO® and Smyths Toys’ partnership with The British Motor Show, Motorsport and LEGO® fans are in for a treat as the life-sized LEGO® Aston Martin F1® car, famously showcased at the 2025 Miami Grand Prix, makes a special appearance at Smyths Toys Farnborough on Sunday 1 March 2026.
Visitors will have the chance to see and get up close to the incredible full-scale LEGO® replica between 10:00am and 4:00pm, with free giveaways throughout the day and the British Motor Show returns from 21–23 August at the Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre, Hampshire.
Volkswagen Group not only continues to offer four- and six-cylinder diesel engines in many of its vehicles, but the A6 is the first for a new V6 TDI which the company hopes will do well in America in future.
The UK is unusual for how high the market share held by electric passenger vehicles now is and in January only 5.5 per cent of all cars sold here ran on diesel, down from an already low 6.2 per cent during the same month in 2025, so it will be interesting to see what is offered in showrooms.
