8:18 am, October 30, 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 explains how his little used car dealership has been targeted by scammers.
Also, there’s been news that finance broker Car Loans UK has stopped trading – so he asks insiders what’s happened and what could happen next to this end of the market.
Plus:
- Group 1 JLR u-turn
- Volvo cuts 2,500 jobs
- Perran Moon suspended
- Range Rover’s GT plan
- Budget reaction
- IM Group to launch another Chinese brand
- VW profits plunge 99%
- China’s tariff threat
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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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