8:39 am, August 29, 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’s been wondering what Amazon’s move into used car sales in the States could mean for the industry.
The web giant has been dabbling with cars for nearly a decade and now he asks: Could this be the time it finally gets it right?
Elsewhere, he looks back at one of the most open and honest podcast interviews we’ve had on the show when we caught up with former Lookers COO Nigel McMinn. He talked about that FCA investigation and his new role leading a recruitment firm and Baggott round-up his thoughts on the latter in this week’s newsletter.
Also featured in this week’s briefing are:
- Ford gets Band 1 EV grant
- Tom Hartley Junior’s second mega deal
- Used car dealer fined by HMRC
- TC Harrison results
- Citygate results
- Pentagon’s new boss
- Auto Trader on EV grant
- New VW T-Roc revealed
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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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