7:56 am, April 4, 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 takes a closer look at the news 12 car makers and the SMMT have been fined for colluding with each other.
Who got fined? And importantly which car maker blew the whistle?
Elsewhere, Cazoo is back but this time with less bitterness for car dealers and instead more promises of help. What have the new owners got planned?
Also featured in this week’s briefing are:
- Trump tariffs
- Vertu kills of brand names
- Motorpoint’s u-turn
- Saxton 4×4 losses
- Hyundai’s concept car
- Hendy profits tumble
- Vauxhall slashes prices
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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.
