7:21 am, April 10, 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 takes a closer look at the March new car sales figures and tries to work out which brands are most at risk of extinction.
As Chinese makers leap up the list – and the Jaecoo 7 tops the best selling cars chart – which legacy manufacturers will be soul searching about their future?
Also this week, Jaguar’s MD Rawdon Glover tells him what it’s like at the firm post-Gerry McGovern.
Also this week:
- FCA crackdown on sale or return
- Motonovo owner to pull out
- Motorpoint’s record figures
- New car sales: Best March since 2019
- Mitsubishi appoints first dealers
- Hendy accounts late
- Allen Ford restructures
- G3 Auctions sold
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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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