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Briefing: Polestar abandons agency, Volvo’s 2030 U-turn and THAT distance-selling loophole

  • Our editor-in-chief takes a look at the most important headlines of the week
  • Subscriber-only briefing designed for time-poor automotive executives
  • It gives you the need-to-know stories and what they mean to the industry 

Time 11:55 am, September 6, 2024

In this week’s Car Dealer Weekly Briefing – the subscriber-only newsletter – James Baggott digests the biggest motor trade headlines in one place.

This week he takes a closer look at Polestar’s decision to switch up its agency sales plans – and what that could mean for other manufacturers.

Also leading the news was Volvo’s decision to abandon its plan to sell all-electric vehicles by 2030 and the story of the distance-selling court case that has got tongues wagging in the motor trade.


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:

  • Williams Group
  • Polestar
  • Volkswagen
  • Carwow
  • BMW
  • Berry and Berry Group
  • Motors
  • Auto Trader
  • Waylands

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Also included in every briefing is our favourite quote of the week which aims to highlight a further news story you may have missed and the other big stories that caught our editor-in-chief’s eye are digested for you, too.

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.

Find it on the Substack website now.

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