7:31 am, March 13, 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 rounds up all the latest revelations from Big Motoring World founder Peter Waddell’s fight against the business he founded in the High Court.
Elsewhere, Cargiant is reportedly up for sale with staff at threat of redundancy, but what’s changed at the profitable used car supermarket?
He looks at the reasons why billionaire owner Geoffrey Warren might be calling time on one of the most famous names in the used car world.
Also this week:
- We catch scammers in the act
- Remembering Michael Buxton
- Reform will ditch 2030 ban
- The used car price risers
- Snows big BYD plans
- SMMT lashes out
- 12 new Renaults
- Aston Barclay deal rubber stamped
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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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