Toyotas Are Reliable – If You Recall?
Recall, Which Recall?
When it comes to vehicle recalls Toyota apparently have dominated the headlines in the early part of 2010. What is less apparent is that recalls are far from unusual in the motor industry with manufacturers regularly carrying out recall work on vehicles in the national vehicle parc.
Most of these are kept low key [...]
Motorists to be Hit With VAT Increase on New Cars
Car buyers who don’t order their new cars in the next couple of weeks will be hundreds of pounds worse off as they sleepwalk into the VAT increase.
With average delivery times stretching to two months, new cars that are not ordered within weeks are likely to be handed over and paid for after the new [...]
CarQuake – Featured in The Sunday Times
It’s amazing how things sometimes happen in reverse…
We access the CarQuake site on Monday morning and are astonished to find out that we had a really busy end to November. Sunday’s traffic was the best single day of traffic in November…
Given all the tools at our disposal, we look at our analytics – traffic is [...]
Car Sales Slump… Ouch!
Car Sales Drop 21% in September
So, it’s happened in September following a pretty miserable August… we get the feeling it’s going to be a long winter with March months away and little evidence that anything will change soon in the marketplace.
At least some of the car manufacturers are trying to slow down production, but even [...]
The Importance of Trust…
If anything the online purchasing experience needs to work harder than anywhere else to generate trust and confidence in the consumer. Particularly when it comes to high ticket items like cars…
A recent study by trading standards in January in Warwickshire estimated that 27% of used cars available for sale were unroadworthy.
However, that is nothing compared [...]