Director Shareholding

European Motor Hldgs PLC
5 July 2002


EUROPEAN MOTOR HOLDINGS plc (the "Company")

NOTIFICATION OF DIRECTORS' SHARE TRANSACTIONS


The Company announces that following the exercise of share options under the
Company's 1990 Share Option Scheme, 100,000 ordinary shares of 40 pence in the
Company were today allotted to Richard Palmer, a director of the Company, at a
price of 112 pence per share and were subsequently sold today at a price of 128
pence per share.

The Company announces that following the exercise of share options under the
Company's 1990 Share Option Scheme, 100,000 ordinary shares of 40 pence in the
Company were today allotted to Ann Wilson, a director of the Company, at a price
of 112 pence per share and were subsequently sold today at a price of 128 pence
per share.

The Company has also today been informed of the following transactions in the
Company's ordinary shares of 40 pence by directors:

•        Richard Palmer has today purchased 8,000 shares at a price of 133 pence
         each

•        Ann Wilson has today purchased 4,500 shares at a price of 133 pence
         each.

As a result of the above transactions, those directors' shareholdings are now:

•        Richard Palmer 463,843 shares (0.87% of the total issued share capital)

•        Ann Wilson 337,106 shares (0.64% of the total issued share capital).


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