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Time 7:24 am, March 28, 2025

In this week’s Car Dealer Briefing James Baggott rounds up the motor trade news you cannot afford to miss.

In the Car Dealer Weekly Briefing, his subscriber-only newsletter, he looks ahead to a special investigation into Tesla. 

At 8pm tonight Car Dealer will publish a video documentary and feature into Tesla and the impact Elon Musk’s outburst are having on the brand’s sales.


In this week’s briefing he takes a look at what some of the dealers told him as part of that investigation.

Elsewhere, former Marshall boss Daksh Gupta talks about his return to the industry to chair car dealer group Hendy.

Also featured in this week’s briefing are:


  • Spring Statement ignores car industry
  • US car tariffs
  • Pentagon Motor Group
  • Chinese car brand opportunity
  • Nissan’s new models
  • EV repair costs

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You can sign up to read your first newsletter for free today – visit the Substack website and subscribe.

There’s also a list of the top 10 most popular stories on the CarDealerMagazine.co.uk website this week which always makes for interesting reading as you can see what has piqued everyone else’s interest too.

Find it on the Substack website now.

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