10:46 am, October 9, 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 been mulling over the future of diesel car sales in the wake of soaring pump prices. Are diesels dead?
And he’s heard from an economist about what the outlook for the public finances mean for the wider economy and car sales. It doesn’t look pretty.
Plus:
- Supercar dealer investigated
- Chinese car tariffs?
- Hendy appoints new chair
- Jaguar’s new car
- Freelander coming
- Group 1 losses
- Cotswold’s stellar results
- Dealer sells Andrew’s Bentley
- IGA wants urgent MOT talks
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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.