All articles by Richard Irvine-Brown

Richard Irvine-Brown

AA Cars: VW Golf most viewed model online

The Volkswagen Golf has been the used car model viewed most often by potential customers using the AA Cars website since it launched in July.

Credit 4 Cars doubles subprime customer base

Funding line with German bank aids finance provider, says group managing director

AA enters car retail without tie to loans

Richard Brown talks to Edmund King, president of The AA

ACF to add trainees as subprime rises

ACF Car Finance, the motor retail arm of subprime lender The Funding Corporation, is set to take on further apprentices following the “outstanding success” of the first round of its trainee scheme.

BEN to survey ‘real issues’ of industry

BEN has begun an online survey to identify the most pertinent issues facing current and former vehicle traders and manufacturers.

Correct enquiries record for HPI CrushWatch

The HPI CrushWatch scheme posted a record proportion of correct enquiries in the month of August as £5.19m of vehicles were recovered.

iVendi to provide bike PCP video for dealers

iVendi is to provide an animated video explaining the mechanics of PCP for use on the websites of motorcycle dealers.

New cars bought, not financed, to save money

The need to save money on motoring costs was given as the primary reason for recently buying a new car for almost half of 1,000 motorists surveyed by research company Incite, although finance was rarely cited as a motivating factor.

BEN details autumn rally

Motor industry benevolent fund BEN has announced details of its sixth Autumn Rally for vintage or classic vehicles.

Piecing it all together

Car finance broker Jigsaw Finance is hiring regional account managers and introducing a dealer system developed by Codeweavers. Alan Smith and Roland Schaack speak to Richard Brown.