Half of UK Scrappage Money Used Up
22 Jul 2009, 13:58 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The British scrapping program is going impressively well and the money is slowly running out. Almost half of the cash offered by the UK government for the scrapping scheme has been used by automaker...
Hyundai i10 Gets 10,000 Orders Through UK Scrappage
22 Jul 2009, 08:32 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Hyundai is one of the companies which benefit the most from the UK scrapping scheme and, after announcing very high sales for most of its models, the automaker comes back in front of the media repre...
GM Aftersales Changes in the UK
20 Jul 2009, 15:46 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / After the executive changes announced last week, General Motors continues restructuring with yet another appointment, this time of Clifford Walpole who's now working as Trade Channel Manager fo...
Renault-Nissan to Build Li-Ion Battery Plants in the UK, Portugal
20 Jul 2009, 10:18 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The Renault-Nissan alliance continues its ambitious green plans and today announced its decision to invest in two battery manufacturing plants in the United Kingdom and Portugal. The two facilities ...
Ford Still No. 1 in UK Scrappage
17 Jul 2009, 13:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the beginning of the month, Ford proudly reported that they have received no less than 12,000 orders in the UK, an increase in consumer appetite driven forward by UK's scrappage incentive. T...
BMW Announced X1 UK Pricing
13 Jul 2009, 18:53 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / BMW has just published the pricing for their X1 models sold in the United Kingdom. A month ago BMW revealed the pricing list for the German market and now has complemented that with the pricing list...
Hyundai Cuts Over £5,000 of Coupe's Prices
9 Jul 2009, 10:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / No joke here, at least as much as we can tell. Hyundai will cut UK's Coupe prices by no less than £5,035, making the 2.0l version of the car cost £12,995 on the road which is, acco...
Chrysler Opens New UK Dealers
7 Jul 2009, 13:49 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / After closing the doors of thousands of dealerships in the United Kingdom, Chrysler continues the European expansions with two new stores in the United Kingdom. Heritage Leicester, from the Ayleston...
UK Scrappage Scheme Working Well
6 Jul 2009, 14:21 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The UK scrappage scheme is really useful for local automakers and for the automotive sector in the country as it represented no less than 9.7 percent of June's UK new car registrations. In part...
UK Car Sales Down in June
6 Jul 2009, 10:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The decreasing trend in UK's new car sales continued through June, even if at a slower pace. For the sixth month of the year, figures have shown that the country's automotive sector fell o...
Tata: Jaguar Land Rover Plant Closures Very Likely
6 Jul 2009, 08:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / After the Indian manufacturer Tata Motors last week announced that it might have to cut more jobs at Jaguar and Land Rover, the chairman of the company is back with even more bad news: plant closure...
UK to Investigate MG Rover Collapse
6 Jul 2009, 08:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Some four years after the collapse of MG Rover, the British government Serious Fraud Office has decided to look into what made the company go bust, according to Uk newspapers quoted by Autonews. The...
Britain Ready to Help Opel/Vauxhall Takeover
3 Jul 2009, 14:05 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / As the negotiations between Magna International and Opel came to a dead end, the United Kingdom government stepped in front of the media and announced its support for the German brand and its sister...
China to Become a Powerful Challenge, Says Fiat UK Boss
3 Jul 2009, 13:59 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Fiat's UK managing director Andrew Humberstone said in an interview that China will become a very challenging market in the future as the country is making several major steps towards expanding...
Ford Spearheads UK Scrappage Scheme
3 Jul 2009, 09:36 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / After Hyundai applauded the United Kingdom scrappage scheme which helped it boost sales, American manufacturer Ford is also revealing enthusiastic figures for the country in which it recorded no les...
Yellow Nissan 370Z Shines this Fall
3 Jul 2009, 07:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese manufacture Nissan's UK branch has announced the release of a limited edition of the Nissan 370Z, meant to pay tribute to the European GT4 series. Although the exact number of lemons ...
UPDATE: Woman Scores Highest Ever at UK Driving Test
30 Jun 2009, 12:42 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / As incredible as it may seem, no one has passed the driving test with no faults in the UK until now. It took Kim Murton nine month of driving lessons to pass the driving test with no minor errors, ...
Toyota to Build Auris Hybrid in the UK
29 Jun 2009, 10:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Confident with the projected success of its new Prius, world's no. 1 manufacturer Toyota seems to have decided to go for a hybrid drivetrain for the Auris model as well. According to some repor...
Nissan Free Trial Helps Motorists Drive More Economically
26 Jun 2009, 10:56 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Nissan has just announced a new trial for the United Kingdom that will teach drivers how to drive more economically while reducing CO2 emissions. Called the Nissan Intelligent Driver Project (NIDP),...
Hyundai Expects Shocking Sales in June
25 Jun 2009, 10:33 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Just as we told you, Hyundai is one of the manufacturers which benefited the most from the UK scrapping scheme as the South Korean company sold a large number of cars with the help of these incentiv...