11:21 am, January 9, 2026
The Car Dealer Briefing from James Baggott summarises the week’s most important motor trade headlines for you all in one place.
In this week’s edition of the Car Dealer Weekly Briefing, the subscriber-only newsletter, he takes a closer look at accounts from the motor trade giant Constellation which lost nearly £113m last year.
Elsewhere, the annual car sales figures have made for interesting reading too, with the Chinese car brands accelerating rapidly – but at whose expense?
Also featured:
- Stellantis stop-drive
- Motorway’s paid listings
- FCA investigation
- Cazoo owes £76m
- Vardy returns to profit
- Volvo fire risk
- Thurlow Nunn deal
- Wessex Garages losses
- JLR attack’s huge cost
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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.
