VAUXHALL RETAIL SALES END YEAR ON YET ANOTHER BUMPER MONTH
Luton – Following a year-on-year retail sales increase of 128 per cent in November, Vauxhall has yet again proved its appeal to user-chooser buyers by posting December retail sales up 54 per cent over the same month in 2008. Vauxhall posted 6050 retail sales in December, which not only exceeded the 3925 sales from December 2008, when the recession first took hold, but also the 5881 retail sales recorded in December 2007. This brings...
DYNAMIC NEXT-GENERATION FORD FOCUS DEBUTS
Next-generation Ford Focus makes its worldwide debut at 2010 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit Focus spearheads Ford’s new generation of global C-cars, all based on a common platform that will underpin up to 10 vehicles around the world and account for two million units of annual production by 2012 Stylish new range provides customers with class-leading new technologies, features and craftsmanship New Focus...
CITROËN + GM COACHWORK = NEW BERLINGO BLAZE
Citroën Berlingo Multispace MPV versatility and the expertise of award-winning GM Coachwork – Motability Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle Partner of the Year 2009 – have combined to produce the new Berlingo Blaze. This advanced, compact wheelchair accessible vehicle (WAV) has been developed to set new standards of user convenience in this sector. The new Berlingo Blaze is available in two formats – driver, plus...
AUDI-BACKED CO2 PROJECT GETS TO THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM
Vorsprung durch Technik brand plants 36,000 oak trees to create a CO2 “reservoir” as part of a wide-reaching efficiency initiative First of a planned series of CO2 ‘storage’ forestation schemes takes root with Audi help in Germany near the brand’s Ingolstadt manufacturing facility Numerous efficiency measures already in place for cars and production facilities Audi range emissions to be cut by 20% by 2012 Latest A3 model is capable of...
FORD ENDS THE DECADE OUTPACING RIVALS AND INCREASING MARKET SHARE
BRENTWOOD, Essex, 7 January, 2010 – Ford’s top selling vehicle range secured almost 17 per cent of the UK’s total 2009 market for the blue oval, making one in six new vehicles a Ford. Other highlights of the official full-year 2009 figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders include: Number one UK car brand for 33rd successive year. Ford share of the total (car and CV) market up from 16.3 in 2008 to 16.7...
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