11:40 am, July 26, 2024
In this week’s Car Dealer Weekly Briefing – the subscriber-only newsletter – James Baggott looks in detail at the biggest motor trade headlines.
This week he gives his opinion on whether the online-only used car sales model really is dead and buried for good – following on from Cinch’s u-turn last week and Cazoo’s collapse.
Baggott also looks in detail at news in the used car supermarket world with Sytner finishing the rebanding of its former Carshop stores. He tries to answer the question: Why did the firm bother in the first place?
There’s also his thoughts on Big’s confirmed deal to buy three former Carshop sites, Mon Motors’ purchase of a bunch of Heritage VW Group franchises, plus his take on Romans International’s drop in profits.
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:
- Group 1 profits
- Motorpoint
- Car production figures
- Auto Trader’s new car stats
- Trade Centre site closure
- Aston Martin losses
- Tesla’s robots
- Ken Brown closures
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Also included is a summary of this week’s podcast (published on Friday afternoons) and what we 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.
