Sytner’s used car site rebrand, Big acquisitions and is the online used car sales model really dead?
Here are the Car Dealer headlines you need to know and what I think of them
Hello and welcome to this week’s motoring industry executive bulletin – the Car Dealer Briefing.
In this week’s newsletter I give you my opinion on whether the online-only used car sales model really is dead and buried for good, what with Cinch’s u-turn last week and Cazoo’s well-documented slow and painful death.
There’s some moving and shaking in the used car supermarket world too with Sytner wrapping up the rebanding of its former Carshop stores. But why did it bother in the first place? I give you my take.
There’s also my thoughts on Big’s confirmed deal to buy three former Carshop sites, Mon Motors’ purchase of a bunch of Heritage VW Group franchises, plus my views on supercar dealer Romans International’s drop in profits.
Also featured in this week’s briefing are:
Group 1 profits
Motorpoint
Car production figures
Auto Trader’s new car stats
Trade Centre site closure
Aston Martin losses
Tesla’s robots
And Ken Brown closures
And don’t forget to book your tickets for our Car Dealer Podcast Live – an automotive industry social gathering, which takes place on September 4. This week we announced electric car dealer Estelle Miller will be one of our guests. You can book tickets here.
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