7:54 am, October 2, 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 has been chatting to dealers about Autotrader’s revamped price flags that have gone live this week.
The controversial tool has been a bone of contention for dealers for years, so have the latest tweaks by the ad platform improved things or made them worse?
Plus:
- Carwow losses grow
- Diesel car searches plummet
- Rush for used EVs
- Cargiant’s reason to shut
- VW Tiguan ‘most unreliable’ car
- Waylands breaks records
- Ancaster falls to a loss
- Car salesman sentenced
- Trade Centre UK investigated
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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.