4:08 pm, November 7, 2025
The Car Dealer Briefing from James Baggott summarises the week’s most important motor trade headlines for you all in one place.
In the Car Dealer Weekly Briefing, his subscriber-only newsletter, he chats to departing Auto Trader COO Catherine Faiers as the marketplace announces new products and chalks up soaring first half year profits
In a busy week for the used car marketplace, Faiers announces she’s leaving the firm to run Moonpig, profits soar for the first 6 months to nearly £200m and its Deal Builder product is to be rolled out to all.
In a wide ranging interview, we ask Faiers:
- What changes would she make to the way car dealers operate?
- If she was running a car dealership, would she do anything differently?
- What one tip would she give car dealers to make them better?
- Plus, we talked about its controversial roll out of Deal Builder.
There’s also a round-up of the most important headlines of the week, plus a look at the new look Seat.
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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.
