8:14 am, June 19, 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 looks at the rumours the government is set to slash the electric vehicle sales targets from 80% by 2030 to 50%. Is this just more meddling or a good thing for the industry?
Elsewhere, he travels to Manchester for a look around Autotrader’s swanky new offices and a catch up about the latest trends. What’s it like inside the used car ad firm’s new pad and what did he learn?
Also featured:
- Car buyers prefer dealerships
- Toyota CH-R ‘most reliable’
- Arnold Clark dealer closure
- New car finance up
- JLR’s cost cutting
- New electric BMW M car
- And more
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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.
