Infiniti opens in Scotland 13 | 12 | 2010
GLASGOW HAS become the fourth city in the UK to feature in the roll-out of Infiniti across the country. Infiniti Centre Glasgow, the new state-of-the-art showroom for the Japanese performance brand, is just two minutes off the M8 at Braehead near to Glasgow Airport.
The Scottish showroom joins centres in central London, Reading and Birmingham and extends Infiniti’s reach to most of the UK’s major population centres when the marque’s unique customer service pledge – free car pick up and delivery within a 150 mile radius – is taken into account.
The opening of the Glasgow centre ties in with the arrival of the M30d, Infiniti’s first diesel-powered performance saloon. Other models to take their place behind the new centre’s glass wall over the coming weeks are the equally new M37 petrol V6 saloon, the G line of Coupé, Convertible and Saloon, and, in both V6 petrol and V6 diesel forms, the EX coupe-crossover and FX luxury SUV, the FX additionally available in V8 form.
As well as a six-car display area the centre boasts state-of-the-art workshop facilities, including an alignment bay and the latest wheel balancing equipment for wheels up to 21 inches.
The centre is operated by Infiniti retail partner MPA which also operates the recently opened Infiniti Centre Birmingham and has two more centres under construction, in Stockport and Leeds. Both due to open in 2011.
Jason Blane, former manager of a Scottish Toyota centre, has been appointed to run Infiniti Centre Glasgow. Blane, who has worked in the Scottish retail car industry for 14 years, is additionally responsible for all Infiniti sales throughout Scotland. Corporate sales specialist Steve Boland is appointed sales and development consultant at the Glasgow Centre.
“We are happy to be able to make our workshop facilities open to owners of all premium brands,” MPA’s Bill McMaster explained. “Given the specialist nature of the equipment we have installed we expect the workshop to be busy.”
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Jim McGill