Editor’s blog

3 March 2010  

SMMT chief executive Paul Everitt has spelled out the organisation’s three-pronged strategy for helping the aftermarket – and claimed that mandatory garage licensing would cost 10 or even 100 times more than Motor Codes subscription.

“. . . the SMMT sees itself sitting up-stream, pulling political strings to engineer a comfortable environment for the automotive sector as a whole”

“When I was a kid . . . the motor industry was always on TV. It wasn’t always for good reasons . . the point is that it was important.”

“What will make the UK industry as a whole more successful, that’s genuinely the focus.”