7:44 am, August 7, 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 looks at the growth of the Chinese brands once again in the July sales charts and spots that Jaecoo has now outsold Land Rover so far this year. What else is happening?
Elsewhere, Skoda’s clever idea to rename a National Park after its new car has been met with a bit of a backlash, but is it all a storm in a tea cup?
Also featured:
- Used car market update
- JLR set aside £50m to battle bad publicity
- Vauxhall’s future success
- Onto liquidation nears end
- Drive Motor Retail results
- New Lamborghini revealed
- Fake HPI Check crackdown
- Gravells’ satisfactory year
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