Discount sales incentives are reeturning to the market as car supply improves but demand falls, reports What? Car. More manufacturers are moving to the direct sales sector and getting dealers to act as their agents to better control prices but rising costs have seen private sales falling and deals for business buyer have be very good to move stock, so hard bargaining is bringing about price … [Read more...]
Government damaging confusion over cleaner vehicles
This week’s government ambivalence over the longstanding 2030 EV sales deadline is potentially “damaging for fleets” who are committed to electrification, says FleetCheck. Peter Golding (below), managing director at the leading fleet software provider, said that prime minister Rishi Sunak’s equivocation when asked about the deadline by an interviewer had set alarm bells ringing across the … [Read more...]
Newslines 13 August
Big saloons are dropping like stones across Europe. Sales of BMW 6 Series cars collapsed 82%, Tesla Model S 52% and Jaguar XJ 38%, but the Mercedes CLS mid-size model improved 76% and its AMG GT lifted 18%, reports JATO Dynamics, which said they had suffered with the expansion of SUV and Crossover models. With the holiday season in full flow the RAC can reveal that eight in 10 (82%) of the UK’s … [Read more...]
Ford lead a depressed Welsh market
New-plate car sales in Wales last month slipped 3.41% to 15,783. That was the average for the UK as a whole but in Scotland it fell almost 10% and the total UK registrations in March reached 457,220. In Wales, the top ten was dominated by Ford with Fiesta, Kuga and Focus taking the first three places, followed by Yaris, Corsa, Qashqai, Polo, Golf, Sandero and Ecosport. It was the only … [Read more...]