7:28 am, May 1, 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 learns how some of the largest and most successful used car dealers in the world are harnessing data to not only work out what cars to buy, but which to sell on too.
He also explains how AI is now helping answer missed calls at the Clever Car Collection.
Also featured this week:
- Hendy results
- Cazoo rebrand
- Vertu’s insurance pay-out
- Big to swoop on more sites?
- FCA scheme challenged
- UK cars top 42m
- Aston Martin’s losses
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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.
