8:48 am, October 10, 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 delves into used car dealers’ biggest fear about selling EVs – that another seismic price drop might be on the way.
But is it?
Also this week, he laments the fact car dealers are being blamed once again for the motor finance commission scandal and there’s even more annual reports to delve into.
Also featured this week are:
- Motorpoint results
- GVE administrator’s report
- Lithia job threats
- Auto Trader’s used car market update
- JLR hack hits Vertu numbers
- Group 1 losses
- Berry Motors
- Used Car Awards Nominations
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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.
