12:59 pm, December 5, 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 looks in more detail at the Car Dealer Top 100 and analyses why car dealers have seen their performance drop this year.
Elsewhere, dealers have been in touch about that sudden departure of JLR design chief Gerry McGovern – what did they have to say?
Also featured are:
- Vauxhall MD out
- New car regs slip
- More top EV grants
- FCA moves deadlines
- Auto Trader launches groups
- Zipcar quits UK
- 2026 market prediction
- Budget hits confidence
- Caffyns profits slump
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You can sign up to read your first newsletter for free today – visit the Substack website and subscribe.
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.
