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Briefing: Jaguar’s firebreak, finance fall-out and jobs on the line at Lookers and Group 1

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Time 11:45 am, November 15, 2024

Car Dealer’s editor in chief James Baggott gives his take on the latest motor trade headlines in another packed subscriber-only newsletter.

The Car Dealer Weekly Briefing summarises this week’s major headlines for time poor executives.

In his Substack, he hears from Jaguar’s boss Rawdon Glover about why it has ‘intentionally’ taken new cars off sale for more than a year and we get news two of the big American-owned car dealer groups could be making job cuts.


Elsewhere the fall out from the car finance commission cases rumbles on – and Martin Lewis has waded back in with a new prediction that claims could get even bigger.

Also featured in this week’s briefing:

  • FCA investigation
  • BMW sets aside £70m
  • Dieselgate is back
  • Euro NCAP scores
  • Is it quiet for used car sales?
  • VW Group gets a new boss
  • Alan Day splashes out
  • Manchester dealer’s strange decision

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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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James is the founder and editor-in-chief of Car Dealer Magazine, and CEO of parent company Baize Group. James has been a motoring journalist for more than 20 years writing about cars and the car industry.



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