9:21 am, September 12, 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 digests a week dominated by the devastating news from JLR and its cyber attack and asks what happens next for the firm crippled by hackers?
Elsewhere, there’s been some interesting deals as Harwoods sells up a large slice of its dealer portfolio to Dubai-based investors and a Mercedes Benz design boss goes off script and sticks the knife into Audi.
Also featured in this week’s briefing are:
- Cupra CEO speaks out
- Skoda boss on Europe’s EV targets
- Tustain Motors ownership changes
- FCA on finance compensation
- Ferrari’s new 849 Testarossa
- V12 results
- Lloyd Motor Group buys three sites
- Used car prices rise
- Council orders dealer closure
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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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