9:22 am, August 15, 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 writes about the Electric Car Grant and its sluggish start.
Currently only 17 electric cars are signed off for the discounts and, as it stands, not one of them can benefit from the full £3,750 cut.
He puts the industry’s questions to the Department for Transport and reveals more of what they said following our exclusive story yesterday.
Elsewhere, there’s been a glut of car dealer group results, the motor finance commissions saga rumbles on and there’s been a worrying state of the nation announcement from the head of Mercedes-Benz.
Also featured in this week’s briefing are:
- FCA redress scheme
- EV warranty data
- Stellantis recalls more cars
- Vospers
- TrustFord
- Lloyd Motor Group
- Williams Motor Group
- The profitable used car winners
- Dealerway
- Bumper
- HR Owen
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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.
