10:36 am, December 12, 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 pretends he’s in the hot seat at Auto Trader and comes up with some ideas to shore up the share price and go for growth.
Elsewhere, he looks at the used cars that have fallen the most in percentage terms in 2025 and rounds up the latest news from across the Car Dealer world this week.
That includes:
- VW dealer collapse
- Volvo dealer immediately terminated
- Cox’s concerns at BCA deal
- Marubeni losses
- Car Dealer Live speakers
- Used car price drops
- Dealer bid to stay open rejected
- Leapmotor
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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.
