8:47 am, November 21, 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 another major name entering the UK market as Van Mossel – the Dutch based group – snaps up not one but two dealer groups.
But what might it be planning here in the UK?
Elsewhere in his briefing, Mitsubishi has been born again with the promise of new cars arriving next summer – but is there too much competition?
Also featured are:
- Auto Trader Deal Builder
- Group 1 closures
- Ford to sell on Amazon
- Europe’s biggest car dealers
- JLR revenues tumble
- New Jeep revealed
- Jemca losses
- Ford kills Focus
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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.
