8:54 am, July 4, 2025
In this week’s Car Dealer Briefing James Baggott rounds up the motor trade news you cannot afford to miss.
In the Car Dealer Weekly Briefing, his subscriber-only newsletter, he reports on another set of impressive numbers from the most profitable car dealer in the UK, Arnold Clark.
Elsewhere, funder V12 has quit the motor trade market taking its finance deals and stock funding products with it, a claims management firm has had its knuckles rapped for submitting 30,000 claims to one finance company who got so fed up they took them to court, and advertising marketplace Heycar has had a reprieve.
Also featured in this week’s briefing are:
- Hyundai’s public spat
- Hartley Junior’s McLaren sale
- Ex-Lookers man snaps up agency
- New Ferrari revealed
- Ford CEO’s China worries
- Renault Retail Group splashes out
- TV star visits car dealer
- Lotus ‘no plans’ to quit UK
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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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