8:12 am, August 26, 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 has been pondering what the future of used car searches look like in a world where consumers are increasingly asking AI for help – could it kill off the used car marketplaces, like Auto Trader, as we know them?
Elsewhere, Jaguar boss Rawdon Glover has been chatting about the brand’s relaunch on a podcast. He goes into great depth about how the backlash was ‘pretty hard’ on staff.
Also featured in this week’s briefing are:
- Big suspended from Trustpilot
- Motor trade’s ‘needless barriers’
- ECOS schemes in spotlight
- More Stellantis woe
- Plug-in Van and Truck Grant
- New T-Roc teased
- Motorpoint
- City West Country results
- Romans International
- Used car prices
- Arnold Clark
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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.
