Organisers of the July...

Organisers of the July event in London have revealed they"ve been in negotiations with Nanjing Automobile, the Chinese firm that bought the remnants of the Birmingham set-up. And their plan is to get "some sort of presence" at the expo. A show spokesman told us: "We suggested Nanjing have a stand or sketches of a future model, but it didn"t want to do that."

The number of private...

The number of private used purchases hit a 15-year low last year, with only 2.89 million second-hand motors changing hands. That’s a drop of 60,000 vehicles on the previous 12 months, or 38.8 per cent of all used sales.