A CAR dealership in Huddersfield has driven off with a national award.

The after-sales team at Hepworth Honda was second overall in the competition– and the highest placed urban dealership – in the Service Excellence Awards made by Honda UK.

The team at Hepworth Honda were competing against 189 Honda sites across the country in the annual awards, which surveys large samples of customers to ask their opinions of service levels.

The award was presented at a gala dinner in the New Forest. Matt Gibson, head of customer at Honda UK later visited Hepworth’s Leeds Road dealership to hand the award to service manager Paul Walsh and team leaders Tracey Swallow and Emma Whittaker, who are responsible for the technicians, drivers and other staff whose efforts secured the accolade.