9:59 am, October 24, 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, the team has been to yet another Chinese car brand launch as Geely pops the Prosecco corks. But why is it discounting its cars already?
Elsewhere, rumoured changes to the Motability scheme in the upcoming Budget has executives concerned as Vertu’s Robert Forrester uses a speech to a room full of journalists to have a moan.
Also featured this week are:
- VW production warning
- JLR hack costs
- Big redundancies
- UCA shortlist revealed
- Omoda Puma rival
- Why customers won’t wait
- John Clark Motor Group
- Vantage Motor Group
- DM Keith
- Marriott Motor Group
- New Toyota boss
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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.
