The Loughborough Motor Park

Welcome to the Loughborough Motor Park! The Belton Road area, in the midst of Loughborough's industrial estates, is home to virtually all of Loughborough's new car dealerships; along the road, there are six dealerships representing eleven manufacturers in some form or another. It's quite convenient for folks looking for new cars to have all the dealers in the same area instead of being all over the place. Five of the six dealers are between the Woodbrook and the Leicester Navigation of the Grand Union Canal, with a sixth on the corner of Belton Road and Derby Road.

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Belton Road, looking east.
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Note: The dealerships will be listed in order from west to east.

Sandicliffe

Ford, Mazda and Nissan

Sandicliffe's branch in Loughborough is on the corner of Belton Road and Derby Road. Nowadays the branch specialises in car sales, but there was also a BP petrol station on the site until 2012, when the dealership began selling Mazda and Nissan cars (they had previously only sold Ford vehicles. Mazdas had previously been sold by Sunwin on Clarence Street.) There is also a garage which is today known as Sandicliffe Xpress but was formerly known as Rapid Fit.

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Mercedes-Benz of Loughborough

Mercedes-Benz

This is one dealership that doesn't seem to have changed hands at all (at least in the last 15 years.)

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Mercedes-Benz V-Class

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Kia Loughborough

Kia

The building presently occupied by Kia Loughborough was formerly the Luffield dealership which sold Citroens (and MGs at a time). Luffield closed in around 2018 and was replaced by Kia Loughborough, which was formerly based in Mountsorrel (despite still being called Kia Loughborough!)

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Listers

Volkswagen

This dealership was formerly an Arthur Prince dealership, but they also sold Volkswagens at this site. (They also had a Peugeot dealership on Clarence Street between around 2011 and 2016, in premises previously occupied by the aforementioned Sunwin Mazda and now occupied by FG Cars.) It became Listers in around 2019.

The Volkswagen ID.3 is Volkswagen's first bespoke electric car.

This is the eighth, and probably last, generation of the long-selling Volkswagen Golf.

Volkswagen T-Cross. This baby crossover was launched about two years ago.
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Volkswagen Arteon. The saloon was launched in around 2018 as a replacement for the VW CC (formerly the VW Passat CC). The estate version, on the other hand, was launched just last year. Oh, how two cars can be so similar and yet so different at the same time!

This is the VW ID.4, an all-electric SUV that is the second model in Volkswagen's ID. series of bespoke electric cars.

ID.3s. The one on the left must be of a more basic trim level than the other one, as it lacks alloy wheels (I prefer the look of steel wheels on many cars anyway) and the lack of a chrome strip running over the roof.

Two variants of the Volkswagen Tiguan.

New Volkswagen Polos.
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Farmer & Carlisle

Toyota

Another dealer that seems to have stayed put. It is outside this dealership that the sign saying 'Loughborough Motor Park' is, for any of you who are in doubt about the name (which really is the actual name. There was also another sign outside the Mercedes-Benz dealership but it seems to have been consumed by a hedge by 2019.)

The surviving 'Loughborough Motor Park' sign.

The Toyota Yaris, which was introduced last year, and seems to have landed itself an award.

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Pentagon Motor Group

Vauxhall

This was formerly the Archie Moss Vauxhall dealership, but around 2019 it became the Pentagon Vauxhall dealership. In addition it also has a Renault service centre and has some kind of maintenance facility for Peugeot and Citroen as well.