5:59 am, February 6, 2026
The Car Dealer Briefing from James Baggott summarises the week’s most important motor trade headlines for you all in one place.
For this week’s edition of the Car Dealer Weekly Briefing, he has visited two enormous American car dealerships – one new and one used – but what did he learn about how they sell cars?
Elsewhere, Amazon Autos is heading to the UK, but what does that mean for the used car advertising landscape?
Plus:
- Car dealer wins distance selling case
- Vertu axes more sites
- Chery launches another brand
- Arnold Clark shareholder’s huge tax bill
- January new car sales rise
- FCA’s warning shot
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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.
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