Posts Tagged ‘Motor Trade’

Kia Extend 7 year Warranty to Entire Range

Kia Motors Europe is celebrating a remarkable 2009 sales performance and the start of the New Year, by offering an industry-leading 7-year warranty on every new Kia vehicle sold in Europe – once again demonstrating that the brand has ‘The Power to Surprise’.
Following the success of the company’s unique and innovative ‘7-Year Kia Warranty’, [...]

Scrap VRT and Create Jobs.

In February I wrote that this government should scrap VRT. The reason was that since car sales would not exceed 80,000 new units and revenue would be no more than €500 million. I also said the trade would lose a further 3000 jobs.
I was wrong, a mere 60,000 cars will be sold yielding a pityful [...]

Scrap VRT - Save Jobs - Get Greener

In 2007 180754 New cars were sold The VAT & VRT take for the state was €2Billion
In 2008 146470 New cars were sold The VAT & VRT take for the state was €1.5Billion
In 2009 80000 New cars may be sold The VAT & VRT take for the state might be €0.5Billion.
VAT is about 30% of [...]