1:57 pm, February 27, 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 asks when was the last time you took time out of your busy dealerships to plan for the future?
With Car Dealer Live just around the corner and tickets selling out fast, he writes about the inspiring sessions set to take place at the British Motor Museum on March 19.
With dealers from franchised and independent sites, eight car manufacturer MDs and some inspiring partners, he tells you which sessions he’s looking forward to the most.
Plus:
- Chinese car insurance cost fears
- Cargurus’ cyber incident
- Stellantis losses
- Aston Martin to axe jobs
- Kevin Mackie latest
- EV chargers boost
- Cazana is back
- Rivian video
- Honda recall
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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.
