Steve Hopewell interview: new versus used car

Steve has experience as a Board Director at Pendragon, one of the largest UK groups with a strong track record in innovation, particularly around the used car business and online retail, is currently the Chair of the Supervisory Board of Aures Holdings which owns the AAA/Driverama used car business which is a major player in central Europe, has advised many dealer groups on operational improvements through Andersen + Martini, and still maintains a hands-on role as the owner of a small Toyota dealer group in the north-west of England.  Based on that wealth of experience, Steve Young, our Managing Director, asked him about the relationship between the new and used car businesses, and the need to be proactive in planning your used car business.

Steve Hopewell on used cars “you’re just trading money”

Steve Young, our Managing Director, asked Steve Hopewell about the keys to running a successful used car business.  In this short clip, he focuses on actively managing stock, starting with the point that in the used car business “you’re just trading money.”

Earl Hesterberg on tariffs

Part of a series of ‘fireside’ chats between Earl Hesterberg, Former Managing Director, Group 1 Automotive Inc. and Steve Young, MD of ICDP. This short video discusses tariffs.

Earl Hesterberg on dealers

Part of a series of ‘fireside’ chats between Earl Hesterberg, Former Managing Director, Group 1 Automotive Inc. and Steve Young, MD of ICDP. This short video discusses dealers.

Earl Hesterberg on Chinese Brands

Part of a series of ‘fireside’ chats between Earl Hesterberg, Former Managing Director, Group 1 Automotive Inc. and Steve Young, MD of ICDP. This short video discusses Chinese brands.

AutoTrader

Digital Journeys, Physical Retailing

EV Retailing Summit 2022

Steve talked about EV Sales and the Agency Model. Steve explains what is driving the challenges we are seeing to the existing distribution model, how the Agency Model is developing within the EV sector and what electrification adds to the Agency Model. He discusses how consumers still wish to visit dealerships due to their ongoing desire to understand charging, new product features and to make EV test drives, and the importance of the need for a well-planned Agency model to suit both manufacturer and dealer

Motor Trade Radio 07/22

Steve Young delivered this radio interview in July 2022. Subjects debated included how agency could impact used cars, OEMs owning dealer groups, BMW charging for fitted add-ons and why vehicle prep is key.

Motor Trade Radio 06/22

Steve Young delivered this radio interview in June 2022. Many topics were discussed - new/used, agency, role of independents and more!

Motor Trade Radio 03/22 ii

Steve Young delivered this radio interview in March 22. The episode took a sensitive look at the impact of the war in Ukraine on the European automotive sector, drawing on Steve's unique insight having worked for the Russian van maker GAZ.

Motor Trade Radio 03/22 i

Steve Young delivered this radio interview in March 22. Steve talks bout Ford's global reorganisation.

Motor Trade Radio 02/22

Steve Young delivered this radio interview in February 22. This episode was themed around aftersales trends and on the options and challenges facing both franchised and independent workshops with the rollout of EVs and ADAS. Steve also discussed the Block Exemption extension will mean for UK aftersales departments.

Motor Trade Radio 12/21

Steve Young delivered this radio interview in December 2021 and discussed various issues facing the auto industry.

AM News Show

Constellation’s car retail rise, OEM’s agency model strategies and vehicle supply shortages were among the hot automotive retail topics up for discussion in this AM News Show Podcast, February 2022. Perrys Motor Sales managing director Darren Ardron, the director of the Centre for Automotive Management at Loughborough University’s Business School and IMI president, Prof Jim Saker, and ICDP managing director Steve Young all joined the panel for the latest edition of the popular show.

AM News Show, ICDP

Steve Young, Managing Director ICDP, was interviewed by AM News on the emergence of agency franchised retail agreements in February 2022. The full interview is here.

Rockar II

“Omni-channel in practice: the Rockar story” webinar was held on the 7th July 2020. Simon Dixon, Founder of Rockar, was interviewed by Steve Young. This is for ICDP members only.

ACES

In 2019, ICDP’s Managing Director Steve Young fronted this video produced as a case study for FENABRAVE in Brazil. Entitled ‘ACES megatrends impacting on the automotive sector’. The video below ‘FENABRAVE’ is a combination of the presentation and video.

FENABRAVE

Steve Young presented an update on The Brazilian Dealer of Tomorrow report at the FENABRAVE Congress in October 2019, the presentation includes the ‘ACES’ video above.

FENABRAVE

Developments of the European Dealer Network Update - October 2021 was produced for our Brazilian members and they have kindly agreed that we can share this with our European members.

Covid (i)

This webcast by the ICDP team took place on the 29th April 2020 ‘Helping the recovery’

Covid (ii)

This webcast by the ICDP team took place on the 27th May 2020 ‘Helping the recovery’.

Covid (iii)

This webcast by the ICDP team took place on the 17th June 2020 as part of the Virtual Summer Meeting 2020. ‘Helping the recovery’

CitNOW

This webcast is by Alistair Horsburgh, CEO of CitNOW. Alistair gave a guest presentation at our ‘Virtual’ Summer Meeting June 2020.

Trevor Finn

This webcast is by Trevor Finn, CEO of New World Automotive. Trevor gave a guest presentation at our ‘Virtual’ Summer Meeting June 2020.

Covid Brazil

To accompany the report ‘Covid-19 – Brazil - an update on the industry status and outlook (May 2020)’ commissioned by FENABRAVE, herewith also a video by Steve Young.

AKL eSummit

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