8:58 am, October 3, 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 takes a look at annual reports from Harwoods, Vindis, Big Motoring World and, on the supplier side, Carwow. They make for interesting reading.
He’s also been hearing about the used car market and what’s going to happen next to prices from the experts.
He relays a warning from one expert who fears a year of stability could be upset in the final quarter. Find out why in his weekly briefing.
Elsewhere, JLR has taken issue with some data that suggested its used cars had fallen out of favour with car buyers, plus also featured in this week’s briefing:
- Lithia & Hatfields
- Harwoods results
- Unreliable used cars
- Doggy Spectre
- Cargiant results
- Close Brothers losses
- FCA battle
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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.
