F&I Management & Training

One fifth of the 500 entrepreneurs questioned by Cadillac said they get their best ideas while sitting in their cars.
The respondents said they deliberately go for drives to help stimulate their creative processes.
The majority of respondents said they prefer to come up with their big ideas alone, with 27 per cent rating solitude as key to the process, and 40 per cent saying they needed peace and quiet.

DATED: 17.10.07

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Inchcape has been ordered by the Office of Fair Trading to sell its VW retail centre in Wrexham.
The OFT ruled that Inchcape dominated the Wrexham area to too large an extent, and had to give up the dealership.

The group, ranked 4 in the Motor Trader Top 200, acquired the VW centre in when it took over EMH earlier this year.

DATED: 17.10.07

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Over 45 per cent of UK car dealers do not feel they take full advantage of point of sale material to drive up business.

This was despite 90 per cent of dealers claiming POS material helps sell used cars faster and more effectively.

POS material ranges from paper-based literature handed out or posted to customers to plasma screens displaying information in the dealerships themselves.

The research, conducted by used car marketing services provider 2nd Byte, also found that 85 per cent of dealers believed point of sale material was important to their business.

DATED: 17.10.07

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While environmental concerns failed to slash sales of gas-guzzlers during quarter two this year in the used car market, tax increases have influenced a sales shift towards diesel cars, according to Experian.

The information services company's latest statistics show that sales of diesels increased by 5.9 per cent while sales of petrol cars fell by 3.3 per cent.

DATED: 17.10.07

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Nationwide Accident Repair Services has appointed Des Hackman, a former senior management team member of struggling automotive training provider Carter and Carter, to lead a new business services division.

Hackman was with Carter and Carter for nine years, having previously worked for Direct Line Insurance and Nissan.

DATED: 17.10.07

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Vehicle design is putting motorists at risk because drivers are less aware of what is happening around them and more isolated through reduced vehicle feedback, according to new research by Brunel University's Driving Research Laboratory. The University described the research findings as 'alarming' given that poor awareness of what is happening around people whilst driving has been proven to be a bigger contributor to accidents than speeding or driving technique.

DATED: 17.10.07

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'By dropping road pricing from the latest draft of the Local Transport Bill, the Government has acknowledged the logistical difficulty of implementing a national road pricing regime,' said Alec Murray, Chairman of the Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMIF). Murray was commenting on the Government's decision to drop road pricing plans from the Bill, effectively killing off road pricing for the foreseeable future.


DATED: 17.10.07

FEED: AW