7:21 am, February 20, 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’s been spurred to look back at agency sales and why they’ve not worked as well as many consultants predicted they would after Polestar celebrated the role its dealers are having in its sales success.
Plus:
- Waddell in High Court
- FCA climbdown
- Used car complaints top 18k
- Pinewood takeover collapses
- Mitsubishi hunts for dealers
- Poor reviews warning
- Mr Bean’s Yaris for sale
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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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