10:26 am, February 13, 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 reflects on what he learned at the NADA conference and asks: Are the American car dealers any better than the Brits?
Plus:
- Sir Jony’s Ferrari interior
- BMW’s huge recall
- ZEV Mandate ‘needs review’
- Fiesta still a best seller
- Trading Standards warning
- Mission Impossible Jeep
- Peter Waddell’s house up for sale
- JLR losses stack up
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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.
