8:47 am, July 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 has been pondering which Chinese car brand he’d put his money on in the wake of Skywell collapsing.
He’s also been hearing from dealers who attended the second Customer Advisory Group meeting at Autotrader and gets wind of tweaks being planned to the site’s controversial price flags.
Also featured:
- Skywell collapses
- Lookers aims to be No1
- Arnold Clark buys family firm
- Marshall backs Lepas
- Logistics firm in administration
- Rising used car prices
- Police bust chop shop op
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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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