7:42 am, June 26, 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 has been thinking about Consumer Rights Act legislation and how it’s just not fit for purpose when it comes to selling cars.
He asks why should a buyer of £2,500 car have the same rights as a £50,000 car and comes up with his ideas for changing it.
Elsewhere, he has been looking at the latest data to show the tide is turning on electric cars when it comes to acceptance at used car dealerships.
Also featured:
- Steven Eagell results
- Vertu’s positive outlook
- Autotrader on Burnham
- Partridge results
- Perrys performs
- Motorway’s new campaign
- Nissan’s govt talks
- Buyers now ‘less loyal’
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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.
