8:44 am, September 11, 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 spent the day at a Geely showroom and while the site was incredibly impressive it hammered home some important truths about the new and used car market right now. He explains what he saw and why it worries him.
Elsewhere, he’s been looking at auction prices and explains why they might be giving us a very clear picture of what’s happening out there in the used car market.
Also this week:
- JLR to axe 4,000 jobs
- Used car ‘volumes rise’
- Seat could be killed off
- Lookers’ new Battersea partner
- Sherwoods results boost
- Chop shop uncovered
- Golf ‘most loved’ used car
- DVLA bans rude ‘76’ plates
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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.