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Weekly Briefing: We’ve deployed some useful AI at our used car dealership

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Time 9:23 am, June 6, 2025

In this week’s Car Dealer Briefing James Baggott rounds up the motor trade news you cannot afford to miss.

In the Car Dealer Weekly Briefing, his subscriber-only newsletter, he has been working on some proper AI solutions for his used car dealership and finally customers are able to interact with it. But is it any good?

Elsewhere, Porsche isn’t happy about a story we wrote about its electric Taycans and the FCA has come up with a plan to compensate consumers if the Supreme Court rules that’s necessary in its judgement next week.

Also featured in this week’s briefing are:

  • May new car sales figures
  • Optimistic forecast for 2025
  • Marshall and Stellantis part ways
  • Lookers closes Manchester base
  • EV prices tumble
  • Taser cops at BMW site
  • Fastest selling used cars
  • New Vauxhall boss

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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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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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