The real Bill for Clean Air
The health effects of air polution must be enshrined in law to force a solution that actually works rather than creating eye-catching policies
AIR Index ‘A’ rating for Jaguar Land Rover
Car buyers were recently invited to rank a group of cars from the cleanest to the dirtiest, based on the actual NOx emissions produced in urban driving. The cleanest car was a full-size SUV and the dirtiest a small supermini. No-one placed the order of the six cars correctly, and it was the same result when journalists and policy makers carried out the exercise.
Maximising the value of clean cars
The 2018 Mercedes-Benz GLC diesel in your showroom is becoming a problem. It arrived as a trade-in with the right spec and at the right money but there’s been little interest and no offers. With the target stockturn date approaching it will probably be traded-on, removing any profit opportunity. But, is there something practical that you could do now, to sell the car and retain the margin?
It’s time to clean up city air quality – properly
A measured welcome for the launch of London’s ULEZ with a call for more progress, more quickly.
Building confidence to help every customer make the right fuel choice
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.’ Seth Godin’s words could be the main agenda item for every sales meeting this year because they sum up both the problem and the solution when selling cars in the current market.
Rebuilding customer confidence after Dieselgate
‘I’d really like a (insert car model), but we can’t buy a diesel as a family car because its emissions are bad for us and it’ll drop in value like a stone’.