BMW will be showing a collection of historic BMWs, Minis and Rolls-Royces at the Goodwood Revival from September 14.
Highlights will include a BMW 507, BMW 503 and BMW Isetta, along with the Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud, and Peter Sellers’ classic Mini.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
BMW to put on big show at Goodwood Revival
One in Three new car registrations not real, says CAP
CAP, the car valuation experts, reckons every third new car is actually being pre-registered by a dealer rather than being sold to a genuine customer.
That is the highest figure ever claimed, but CAP says it knows of one dealer group offered £500,000 to put more discounted cars on the road this summer, another manufacturer subsidising discounts of up to 40% in return for self-registering cars and a dealer group who reported an increase in new cars registered which masked an underlying 6% fall in actual new car sales. CAP also identified 80,000 tactical registrations by just 2 dealers in July.
Škoda Yeti Sochi Special Edition Debuts In Moscow
Now that the London Olympics are behind automakers can focus on the next big games. Škoda has released a special edition Yeti Sochi (named after the Russian city that will host next winter olympics) at the Moscow Motor Show, previewing ŠKODA’s sponsorship of the 2014 Winter Olympics. The special edition Yeti will go on sale in Russia next year.
Mazda launches new Mazda6
Mazda has launched its new large family saloon, at the 2012 Moscow Motor Show.
Following the CX-5 SUV, it is the second Mazda to be designed since the divorce from Ford – hence it is completely separate from the Ford Mondeo, with which the last Mazda6 shared its platform.
4,000 complaints a month over used car dealers
Citizens Advice reports that complaints about second-hand cars bought from independent dealers are the most common complaint on its Advice helpline.
The service, which started in April, received 150,000 calls in its first three months on all subjects, of which 12,000 calls were about used cars from dealers. Approximately 75 per cent of all car-sales complaints were about independent dealers, rather than official franchised dealers or private sellers (although we can’t see what Citizens Advice could do about a private seller, unless it was a trader pretending to be a private seller).
