Used Car Industry News and Resources

Due to increased competition in the marketplace, a new survey has unveiled that drivers are paying around 10% less for a car service than they were during 2012. The current average price for a car service, as found in the poll by Warranty Direct, provider of consumer car warranties, is now £74.70. This is around £8.18 per hour less than it was last year, and has been put down to...

The Vauxhall hybrid Ampera has just had it's price reduced by a whopping £3,500, in order to increase it's desirability to those drivers who are thinking of going green. With the price cut, the starting price of the Ampera is now at £28,750, but this also includes the grant of £5,000 that is given by the government to those who purchase low emission electric vehicles. The...

Plans to up the number of electric vehicles on the road north of the border have been disclosed by the Scottish Government. The SNP have outlined their aims to completely remove conventionally-fuelled vehicles from Scottish urban roads by 2050, cutting emissions from cars to zero in their towns and cities. Their unveiled documentation predicts that almost every new car sold will ha...

The next generation of the popular city car the i10 has been unveiled by Asian car giant Hyundai. Completely manufactured and built in the EU, the i10 is aimed at leading the European A-segment (city car) market. To do this it aims to offer more interior space and comfort than it's rivals, whilst keeping it's stylish modern design for both interior and exterior. The i10 is no stran...

Investment of up to £1.5 billion is being ploughed into Jaguar Land Rover's (JLR) Solihull plant in the West Midlands, as the company steps up it's development of new materials for it's upcoming vehicle offerings. In the future, JLR are looking to use an advanced form of aluminium in it's vehicles, in an attempt to offer strength and durability as well as being lightweight. A mid-size...

British motorists are snapping up new cars month on month, and sales continued to rise in August, with figures showing a rise of more than 10% on the same period in 2012. Registration of new cars in the UK rose by 10.9% in August, as shown in figures recently released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). August was also the 18th sequential month of rises in sales of new...

For what must be the fourth time this year, recall-plagued Toyota has once again issued a recall of thousands of it's vehicles, after two faults were diagnosed by the carmaker. The recall affects 369,000 vehicles in total throughout the world; the largest amount of cars recalled by Toyota so far this year. A problem in the hybrid system is thought to affect the bulk of the recalled...

Motorists driving diesel-powered cars in the UK fork out the fourth most money worldwide to fill their tank, as recently revealed in research made by a price comparison website. Diesel cars are becoming more and more popular in recent years, with more efficient models proving popular with long distance drivers. Figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) show that the...

When the 13 plates came into force for new cars in March this year, many wondered if the purported unlucky number would be off-putting buyers. However, sales figures do not lie, and the 13 plates have proved to be the most popular plates since the 58 plate; and these sales figures do not include August turnover yet. In the five months spanning the start of March to the end of July, there we...

Avid used car buyers and those who just want to buy a cheap decent vehicle should keep their eyes on the used car marketplace in the coming month, as a wide range of part-exchange and ex-fleet cars are set to enter the market. The reason for this influx of used cars on the market is the forthcoming release of the new 63 registration plates. When a new reg plate is released, this typically i...