9:13 am, July 11, 2025
In this week’s Car Dealer Briefing James Baggott rounds up the motor trade news you cannot afford to miss.
In the Car Dealer Weekly Briefing, his subscriber-only newsletter, he reports on a shocking (to him) statistic shared on social media about the supercharged rise of the Chinese car brands as it’s revealed Chery is heading to the UK too.
Elsewhere, he reports on the Citroen and DS airbag safety recall and the immense pressure it is putting on dealers up and down the country and there’s some summer acquisitions news from Waylands.
Also featured in this week’s briefing are:
- Cars2 results
- Cazoo ad campaign
- 23m car finance claims
- EV sales surge
- New Maserati
- JLR sales decline
- Big Motoring World court case
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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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