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Hartwell has opened the doors to the UK s first Ford Signature car dealership and Transit Centre in Reading.
The AM100 car retail group officially opened the doors to its new facility, off the A33 in Reading, as dealerships across the UK reopened their doors to customers following COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’.
Ford Motor Company retail strategy manager, Louise Coates, was one of the first people to visit the new site when she took a look yesterday (April 14).
Taking to LinkedIn, Coates, celbrated the opening of the UK s first full Ford Signature corporate identity (CI) retail site. She said: “Great visit today to the newly completed site in Reading. The site looks amazing with the new Ford global look and style - Signature.”
Click the thumbs up >Porsche Cars GB has seen the COVID-19 Lockdown 3 opening of its network’s new franchised dealership in Norwich and is preparing to add an upgraded South Lakes centre to its network this summer.
The German sports car brand, which saw its recently-launched Taycan electric vehicle (EV) become its second-best seller in 2020 as it delivered a total of 14,284 registrations (2019: 15,257) – its second-best year in the UK – is set to welcome the two new sites despite challenging trading conditions.
JCT600 is currently poised to begin development work on a new kind of a more compact, satellite Porsche showroom in York, meanwhile.
Published:
5:03 PM January 11, 2021
Updated:
9:32 AM January 13, 2021
The new Porsche centre in Norwich is open but only for essential services. A grand opening has been postponed because of Covid.
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A new Porsche centre in Norwich is open for essential service work but a big opening of all its facilities has been postponed.
Russ Dacre, the son of Norwich businessman and property owner Graham Dacre, is behind the new facility in Hall Road.
Before lockdown, the site saw a new steel framework installed which has now been covered over with a structure.
The centre will not just sell Porsches, new and approved pre-owned, but will also have an eight-bay workshop area, two bays for on-the-spot diagnosis of problems as well as a cafe and hospitality suite. Currently the nearest Porsche showrooms are in Cambridge or Colchester.