8:47 am, May 8, 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, just a week after announcing huge losses, car dealer group Hendy has said its COO Duncan McPhee is leaving for pastures new – and that’s led to questions as to where the next top leaders are coming from?
Also this week he revealed a huge, multi-million pound finance scam that has seen ghost cars, rogue dealers and criminal gangs cause havoc.
Also featured:
- Blue Motor Finance concerns
- Lithia eyes up JLR sites
- Discovery branded ‘most unreliable’
- New car market grows 24%
- Renault boss on incentives
- Supercar dealer bounces back
- Nissan to close production line
- Dodgy dealer admits fraud
- Cazoo’s fastest selling cars
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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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