9:15 am, August 8, 2025
The Car Dealer Briefing from James Baggott is back this week after a summer hiatus and he rounds up the motor trade news you might have missed with some added comment along the way.
In the Car Dealer Weekly Briefing, his subscriber-only newsletter, he writes about the car finance commissions saga that came to a head with a ruling from the Supreme Court last Friday. He asks what’s next and are dealers really off the hook?
Elsewhere, he’s been reading up on the rules surrounding car dealer reviews and the scary fines that come with getting it wrong, and there’s been a raft of car dealer group results to digest.
Also featured in this week’s briefing are:
- BYD on EV car grant
- July new car sales drop
- Garages’ concern over EVs
- Record year for car sales predicted
- Yeomans profits soar
- Johnsons Cars
- Day’s Motor Group
- Sinclair Group
- Stellantis&You
- TrustFord acquisition
- Corrupt car dealer worker
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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.
Find it on the Substack website now.
