9:09 am, September 25, 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 reports on his week driving 10 Chinese cars and why he thinks right now is one of the most important times the car industry has ever seen.
Also in this week’s edition he mulls the future of Seat which looks to be on the rocks and asks: Was this VW’s doing all along?
Plus:
- Vindis profits half
- Car import firm’s ad banned
- Aion boss on sales plan
- Fastest selling used cars
- VW slashes profit forecast
- Renault’s new concept car
- Skoda boss heads to Volvo
- Eastern Western profits dip
- BMW’s compensation bill rises
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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.
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