12:01 pm, March 27, 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 chatting to an insider at used car supermarket Cargiant who has told him how the redundancy process has been progressing and when the business may close.
Elsewhere, he’s been investigating another scam – but this time it’s one targeting dealers directly.
Also this week:
- More job losses at Big?
- Tax dodgers revealed
- Stock shortages worsen
- Chinese car brands surge
- Pinewood profits to take hit
- Bond star backs Denza
- FCA to announce finance scheme
- Lamborghini record sales
- Essex Car Group liquidation
- Big High Court case latest
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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.
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