9:33 am, June 13, 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 has been out on the road with colleagues driving some new cars – one of them was the Omoda 5. After a test drive, he asks, what’s the problem with Chinese cars? Is there one?
Elsewhere, he takes a look at troubled used car supermarket group Motorpoint bouncing back from big losses to profit and Pod Point – the Andy Palmer-chaired charge point business – is sold for £10m, four years after it listed at £345m.
Also featured in this week’s briefing are:
- EV stocking
- US tariffs
- Wessex Garages boss departs
- Supercar dealer merger
- New CarPlay
- Trade Centre bounces back
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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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