Arnold gets another one

[BMR]

Ah thanks for that.

I had seen the other company start with their ex sales member. Shame for a 120 year old company to finish off like that, but I can imagine the costs nowadays as a small outfit are hard to make ends meet

[Tannedbaldhead]

BMR said:

Ah thanks for that.

I had seen the other company start with their ex sales member. Shame for a 120 year old company to finish off like that, but I can imagine the costs nowadays as a small outfit are hard to make ends meet

Getting Harder and harder, If not impossible, to buy a car from a small independent.
My last purchase was from Hardie Peugeot Larbert. It's now an AC MG dealer

[S2red]

Hardies in Larbert is now a builders depot. Howdens

[S2red]

Arnold Clark Toyota re branded and now MG wonder if that means all the pensioners in the Briggs will now change to MGs? :-)

[Pluto40]

Peter Vardy in Dalgety Bay now closed. Plans for a care home on the site.

[750turbo]

cas20 said:

Park's acquires Mackie Motors in Angus

Arnold Clark loses Toyota franchise and Macklin (Vertu) take it on in Greater Glasgow.

Macklin only have the one site in Kennishead Road so far, apparently 3 or 4 more to come. The current one is apparently just a temp site as well.

[r.s.logan]

Macklin motors have a lot more than one site and as far as the Kennishead Rd being a temporary site , it's been there for at the very least 8 yrs that I know of . A family member living nearby has bought a few new cars over the years from them

https://www.macklinmotors.co.uk/

Edited by r.s.logan on Thursday 28th April 11:22

[750turbo]

r.s.logan said:

Macklin motors have a lot more than one site and as far as the Kennishead Rd being a temporary site , it's been there for at the very least 8 yrs that I know of . A family member living nearby has bought a few new cars over the years from them

https://www.macklinmotors.co.uk/

Edited by r.s.logan on Thursday 28th April 11:22

I was referring to Toyota, and It is a temporary Toyota site.

[Heidfirst]

S2red said:

Arnold Clark Toyota re branded and now MG wonder if that means all the pensioners in the Briggs will now change to MGs? :-)

The former Linwood AC Toyota is now KIA.

[S2red]

You do wonder what drives manufacturer/importer to remove virtually all the franchises bar one from a dealer group and award them to a competing dealer group? Why leave one garage still with franchise?

[Heidfirst]

I get the feeling that it was more that AC walked away from Toyota (& that it may not be the only franchise that they might do that with). Possibly they couldn't come to mutually agreeable terms on site investment/margins etc.
From what I understand Ayr remains Toyota only for the handover of new Toyotas that were ordered via AC before the franchise shifted. Once they have all been delivered it too will no longer be Toyota.

[loskie]

Or perhaps Arnold's performance in terms of customer satisfaction has resulted in manufacturers declining to renew franchises. Now sales are less local and easily more national (not yet global) this is the way forward for manufacturers to increase profits by reducing competition.

[S2red]

Heidfirst said:

I get the feeling that it was more that AC walked away from Toyota (& that it may not be the only franchise that they might do that with). Possibly they couldn't come to mutually agreeable terms on site investment/margins etc.
From what I understand Ayr remains Toyota only for the handover of new Toyotas that were ordered via AC before the franchise shifted. Once they have all been delivered it too will no longer be Toyota.

Yes could be the case No new Toyota deals available on web site

[750turbo]

S2red said:

Heidfirst said:

I get the feeling that it was more that AC walked away from Toyota (& that it may not be the only franchise that they might do that with). Possibly they couldn't come to mutually agreeable terms on site investment/margins etc.
From what I understand Ayr remains Toyota only for the handover of new Toyotas that were ordered via AC before the franchise shifted. Once they have all been delivered it too will no longer be Toyota.

Yes could be the case No new Toyota deals available on web site

S2red is spot on.

[BillyWhizz888]

Ac have bought central car auctions

[S2red]

Hmm Its all about controlling the deals from start to finish.

[750turbo]

BillyWhizz888 said:

Ac have bought central car auctions

Has this been reported online yet? I get a few emails daily from the MT press and nothing said so far that I can see.

[BillyWhizz888]

Ac announced to thier staff last Friday that they have bought something big and something small.

My boss told us the news on sat about the central news and today I've been told a1 automotive been given 1 month notice that thier central contract is ending

[MissChief]

Was down at Portobello in Edinburgh at the weekend for the first time in years and I’d say half the dealers that were there are now gone with either empty lots or car supermarket type places. It also looked very shabby too. A far cry from five or six years ago when it was full of dealers and premium ones like Audi, Volvo etc. both gone as are Renault, Pentland Landrover is now flats and the Ford dealer is going to be another car supermarket place again.

[sherman]

MissChief said:

Was down at Portobello in Edinburgh at the weekend for the first time in years and I’d say half the dealers that were there are now gone with either empty lots or car supermarket type places. It also looked very shabby too. A far cry from five or six years ago when it was full of dealers and premium ones like Audi, Volvo etc. both gone as are Renault, Pentland Landrover is now flats and the Ford dealer is going to be another car supermarket place again.

Lots of fresh shiny dealerships up a fort kinnaird.
Landrover, jaguar, mercedes, porsche etc.
Volvo are in Corstorphine in what used to be the jaguar dealership and audi are out at sighthill