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Weekly Briefing: That Auto Trader rebellion as it unfolded and what could happen next

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Time 7:22 am, November 14, 2025

The Car Dealer Briefing from James Baggott summarises the week’s most important motor trade headlines for you all in one place. 

In the Car Dealer Weekly Briefing, his subscriber-only newsletter, he looks back at how that Auto Trader rebellion unfolded and asks what could happen next? 

Elsewhere he digests supercar dealer Tom Hartley Jnr’s incredible accounts – he’s made more than most franchised car dealer groups from the sale of just 105 cars – but how?

Also featured are:

  • Motorpoint results
  • EV Vans dodge pay per mile
  • EVs face Congestion Charge
  • Used car market grows
  • Available Car results
  • Quentin Wilson
  • Peugeot’s concept
  • MOT centre’s huge debt
  • MG’s milestone

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You can sign up to read your first newsletter for free today – visit the Substack website and subscribe.

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.

Find it on the Substack website now.

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James is the founder and editor-in-chief of Car Dealer Magazine, and CEO of parent company Baize Group. James has been a motoring journalist for more than 20 years writing about cars and the car industry.



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