12:01 pm, August 2, 2024
In this week’s Car Dealer Weekly Briefing – the subscriber only newsletter – James Baggott digests at the biggest motor trade headlines in one place.
This week he takes a closer look at the huge Group 1 acquisition of Inchcape’s retail sites – and what it could mean to the rest of the industry.
Baggott also gives his thoughts on what that scam warning from Mike Brewer could mean to distant sales for other dealers, there’s positive news from the used car market in terms of projections and values, and he looks at what the FCA pressing pause could mean to the industry.
There’s also his thoughts on used car prices after the latest numbers for July were released this week, while there’s a round-up of Auto Trader’s forecast for the rest of the year.
The weekly newsletter is published every Friday to subscribers and delivered directly to your email inbox. You can also read it on the Substack app.
Also featured in this week’s briefing are:
- BYD
- Dacia’s best seller
- Soft top drop
- Toyota’s second apology
- Warranty acquisition
- Stellantis backs Maserati
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Also included in every briefing is a summary of this week’s podcast (published on Friday afternoons) and what was discussed, a quote of the week which aims to highlight a further news story you may have missed while the other big stories that caught our editor-in-chief’s eye are digested for you.
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.
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