Uk Car News

PCG Digital in the US have announced the first ever award winners in the first ever marketing and SEO awards exclusive to the automotive industry.

The effect of the recession on the automotive trade was evident, making an SEO company even more valuable to both dealerships and corporations. The awards which were announced in late April in New Jersey,USA were named the ‘Passion Awards’ and focused on seven of the industries leading marketers which PCG believed helped push forward the industry in the digital world.

Automotive marketing has long been associated with billboards and television advertising but the ever increasing popularity,availability of high speed internet and the comparative costs of online advertising space has made the move to digital essential.

The growing trend for mobile applications has benefited SEO success according to experts, although the long term results are yet to be projected or even known. 

PCG Digital who presented the awards are also running SEO workshops for US based firms throughout the country in June this year, the road show will take be zigzagging from St Louis to LA throughout June in a hope to raise the profile and awareness for the importance of SEO and online marketing to other automotive corporations.

Home to the largest economy in Scotland, Glasgow even puts Aberdeen’s oil field into second place.

Originally basing its economy on the production of vehicles,ships and trains Glasgow now has record growth in new industry such as software development and biotechnology.

Scrap Car Glasgow offers a unique scrappage service that allows users to receive money for their vehicles. Using a network of scrappage services in Glasgow means that Scrap Car can also offer free vehicle collection if required.

One of the big attractions to the service is how easy it is, Scrap Car prides itself on a four step system from logging on to you getting your ELV (End of Life Vehicle certificates).

You also do not have to worry about any of your vehicles parts ended up in a landfill, a practice that costs the UK taxpayer a huge amount of money every year. Scrap Car only uses services that have been inspected and certified by an Environmental Agency and Local Council. Meaning that recycling is both efficient environmentally and economically.

With over five years experience in online marketing within the automotive sector Scrap Car knows how to get customers to the site and provide the best service.

The Nissan Motor Company announced a huge 106.6 billion yen (910 million Euros) net income for the first quarter of 2010.  This is a significant increase on the number form the same period last year (140 million Euros). 

According to their reports, Nissans net revenue has risen 35.3% .  There operating profit for the period was around 1.32 billion.  This comes from the sale f over 954,000 vehicles in the first part of the year which is an increase of 32% on the same fiscal period last year. 

The people at Nissan have worked had during the last few years despite the adverse conditions.   Carlos Ghosn, Nissans Precedent and CEO said

“Challenging market conditions persist, but our performance reflects strong demand for Nissan’s products as well as our relentless focus on operational efficiency”

Things can only get better for Nissan as they plan to release a range of new models in the coming months.  They have nine all new products coming soon.  These include the environmentally friendly zero emission LEAF.  Nissan remains optimistic about hitting its fiscal forecasts and continued success.  Mr Ghosn said:

“We are confident to achieve our FY2010 Forecast”

The UK was the 4th biggest car producer in europe in 2009 with Germany being top, Spain 2nd, France 3rd and Czech Republic being 5th. Britain’s car makers hope to be producing nearly 50% more vehicles a year, within the next 5 years, but, figures show that even with this estimate, by 2014, Britain’s carmakers still won’t match the number made in 2008.

The most produced car in Britain, surprisingly, is the Nissan Qashqai, with 219,000 models expected to be produced in 2010. This is follwed closely by the BMW favorite, the MINI. There are forcasted 210,000 models to be made in 2010.

The SMMT motor industry group’s analysis of the future of European car production says that car and van production in Britain will rise by 25% this year to 1.34 million. With last year being Britains worst, since cars were mass produced in the country, 1.07 million cars were removed from the assembly line, so hopefully Britain’s recovery from the recession will prevent figures being this low in the future.

Alloy Wheels are becoming increasingly more popular on all makes of cars. Most manufacturers now fit stock cars with alloy wheels whereas a few years ago all cars would come standard with steel wheels. Read my blog here about the reasons why people want alloy wheels as aposed to steel wheels.

On april 1st there were reports about prescription glass being invented for car windscreens. This later turned out to be an april fools joke, but it was pretty convincing… i fell for it for a few moments at least.

 See the video on prescription windscreens here:

Towbars are a vital part to any off-road/4×4 vehicle. Whats the point in having all that pulling power if you’ve got nothing to pull? Towbars have become increasingly more popular amongst the big off-road vehicles, due to rapidly changing and unpredictable weather conditions, and are a must have if you are likely to be affected by these conditions.

Power steering was first introduced into cars by Chrysler in 1951. Since then it has come along way. Nowadays if you buy a car (unless its a classic or vintage car) you can be pretty much certain that it will have power steering. Like anything else, power steeering has its pro’s and con’s. The advantages of having power steering are obviously that it makes turning a whole lot easier because of the rotation angle but the disadvantages are that they do tend to brake / need parts replacing and they can be dangerous at high speeds is not used correctly (can fling the vehicle), although this is rare, it does happen.

Carburettor’s are not used now as much as they were used back in the 1980’s thanks to the invention of fuel injectors, but they are still commonly found on motorcycles and smaller car engines. The carburettor’s main job is basically to control the amount of fuel going into the engine to keep the air/fuel ratio correct and to measure the air flow of the engine. The reason why this job is so hard is because air and fuel dont exactly mix together perfectly. The carburettor has to compensate for ambient temperatures, atmospheric pressures, engine speeds / engine loads and centrifugal forces. Above all this, they also have to try and produce as few emissions as possible.