6:55 am, April 24, 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 hears from car dealers who were at Autotrader’s first customer advisory groups, and from the firm themselves. What was discussed?
Also this week, Lookers has allegedly made plans for another round of redundancies – so what’s going on at the giant car dealer group?
Plus:
- Swansway profits rise
- Arnold Clark faces legal action
- HMRC moves to block VAT charging change
- Car sales trio admit fraud
- MG4 tops fastest selling car chart
- New BMW 7 Series
- FCA scheme challenged
- Pinewood profits up
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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.
Find it on the Substack website now.
