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Weekly Briefing: Reeves wades in, Motability’s huge losses and VW cans agency

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Time 8:22 am, January 24, 2025

If you’re struggling to keep up with the motor trade news, Car Dealer editor in chief James Baggott’s weekly briefing for time poor motor trade bosses is perfect.

His Car Dealer Weekly Briefing summarises this week’s major news on Subtack – but you need to be a subscriber to read it.

In his newsletter this week, he looks at why the government decided to wade into the car finance commissions debacle by writing to the Supreme Court. Will it make any difference to the outcome?


Elsewhere, Volkswagen Group officially puts its agency sales plans on ice, Ford confirms its dealer network has shrunk by 50 sites in a year and Motability sees its profits collapse in spectacular fashion.

Also featured in this week’s briefing:

  • EV discounts
  • Jemca losses
  • Dicksons of Inverness
  • Car Dealer Live
  • Carwow
  • Stoneacre
  • Fastest selling used cars
  • Swanson liquidation

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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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