7:32 am, July 31, 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, as Roger Penske launches a bid to buy the portion of Penske Automotive Group he doesn’t already control, he wonders if Stock Markets are the wrong place for car dealers altogether.
Elsewhere, ahead of AI Week – which takes places next week on the Car Dealer Magazine website – he reveals exclusively to subscribers some of the cool things car dealers have been building and doing with AI.
Also featured:
- BBC reports on Trade Centre UK
- Group 1 pressures
- Lepas wants 90 dealers
- Big plans redundancies
- Autotrader changes
- BYD tops 100k sales
- Sinclair’s tough year
- Fresh Pinewood deal
- And more
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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.