Tokyo Motor Show - Toyota Fun-Vii Concept

Japan this year wanted to show they are back with car makers returning to Tokyo's show after a shock of the past 2 years. Over the past 2 years Japan  has found it hard in the car market with Toyota's bad press, the Lehman Brother crash the global economic down turn and majour prestige car makers pulling out of the country's automotive event. Japan is now back for a come back not just after all these problem but post-tsunami of last March.

There were many models shown off and cars, including Toyota's new GT-86. What you all want to know about is the stupid concepts that will never be seen again.

I know I should hate it, but I kinda love it. I don't know why or how but I want them to make it I kind of love the design and the idea behind it.

Many of you are now about to stop reading our blog and go back to searching our website stock to find your self a nice porsche but for everyone still reading, let me tell you about the Toyota Fun-Vii and why I love it.

The Fun-Vii is a concept it will never be built, but we may see some of its idea's around in the far future of cars? Its made up of LCD touch screens for the body work, making it a BIG ipad. Yes I said it, maybe it should of been called the Icar rather than the Vii.

Now you may think its pointless having LCD screen on a car but trust me its not think of it as eva changing paint. How many times have we wished we had a red car one day and a black another, well this would allow you to just do it or display some lovely flowers or patterns. You could even have it say BUY ME and with it being a touch screen you could do stuff on it, add notes, and kids wouldn't vandal it they'd be playing games on it!

Stocklist Page Speed & Car Finance Application Online

We have just done some more changes to our website, http://luigimotors.com/stocklist.html now loads 3s faster than it did, We know this doesn't sound a great deal but will make the website easier for Mobile users who now look at our car stock list. To see this change you would need to refresh the page to update it. If you see a page loading a little slow let us know and we will put it threw some testing to improve it. Our website has an average page load speed of 1.4s and google says this is 74% faster than most sites on the web today!

Carlye Finance have just launched a way to do your fiance prob form online, we are going to trail this on there site, with plans to role it out to vehicles on our site. This will mean you can just hit apply fill in a form and have an answer within 24 hours or less.

Rich Snippets & Christmas Opening Times

Here at luigi motors were always trying to improve our online stats.
Google this week has opened up the use of rich snippets to including alot more options.

So we belive were the first used Car dealer to use rich snippets in the world. What this means is when doing a google search our cars will display the price right inside the google search and also when using our search on our website.

Google may plan in the future to show you the first image of our cars right in google search. The idea of this is to improve search making you see the information you want right away before loading the page you want.

We will be rolling out rich snippet to all the cars we have in stock and hope this won't affect page speed as its not loading any extra information. If you notice our pages take longer to load than you think they should let us know. If you think they load fast let us know we like to know were doing our job right we aim at the webpage loading within a blink.

Google Says most are pages are well under 1.5 Secs loading time on average.

Finaly Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all.

Christmas Opening times;

Christmas Eve: Please Call will be working a half day
Christmas Day CLOSED
Boxing Day CLOSED
New Years EVE CLOSED
New Years Day CLOSED

What Films Comes to Mind?

Snow?

This year could be another year of BIG freeze, If thats true now is the time to try sell 4x4 cars even though normally people worry about big fuel costs. When it snows magic fairy dust suddenly makes every 4x4 car the most sellable item. We went from stocking five 4x4's this week to only 1 then we managed to get some new stock in and we have 2 in stock now, so if you want to get around this winter come have a look at what we have in stock.

If you want to sell your car to us 4x4 or not please call us now 01663 743 760

Fiesta RS? A New Ford XR?

Ford has been turning the rumour mill this week, with hints that a new Fiesta RS may be on the line up this year. Ford has also made it very clear they still own the XR badge which brought us cars like the fiesta XR2 and the Escourt XR3i Ford said the XR badge is merly taking a long term holiday and is not retired yet. I'd like to see a fiesta RS first personaly but a new sporty fiesta with any badge wouldn't go a miss.

The sad news is ford did say the chance of us ever seeing a cosworth badged ford is HIGHLY unlikely and with Subaru showing there new cosworth off it looks like a ford cosworth is dead in the water. Very high demand in america for a sporty fiesta thou could bring a sporty fiesta to our roads for this time next year. The fact that Ken Block drives a WRC Fiesta shows that it can be done and with Ken Block driving it all petrol heads want a peace but there's alot to change to make a road going version.

Ofcourse Ford will follow the golden rule, release a fiesta ST, get good sales then bring out an RS and ofcourse if that does well maybe a WRC or XR? least we can dream it will get that far we all need a small toy.

The main problem is the UK is a odd market were one of a few global markets to fords and were about the only one who likes small sporty hatchbacks.

Safe & Sound Launch Photo's

We've finally been sent the launch photo's by Safe & Sound Warranty the only used car warranty with an endorsement from Sir Stirling Moss OBE.

Many of you may what to know what made us move from our current warranty provider, and the truth our old warranty company was great. The only reason to change to safe and sound was the level of cover was much greater for only a fraction more of the cost. We also have a much better level of marketing support. The most important difference between Safe&Sound and our old warranty company thou is all warranties our now FSA warranties giving you greater protection.