4:11 pm, June 5, 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 looking into why Constellation has decided to build up a meaningful shareholding in yet another listed car dealer group.
Why, exactly, does it want those Vertu shares?
Also this week, the gloves are off in the battle for dealers in the used car advertising world as the Cazoo boss Barry Judge takes aim at the market leaders in a spicy LinkedIn post. Find out what he had to say.
Also featured:
- Chery to build in UK
- New car market grows
- FCA investigation
- Big lines up site sale
- Lithia wraps up JLR deal
- Jaecoos go up in flames
- VW boss on the Chinese
- Amari results improve
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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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