Dealer news with market evidence.
Motor Trade Radio is a brisk UK motor retail bulletin built around franchised and independent dealer concerns. It mixes headline discussion, market data, supplier features, and interviews with sector figures from groups, associations, valuation firms, and automotive services.
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Motor Trade Radio is a long-running UK motor retail programme with a clear dealership lens. It covers the sector as a commercial marketplace, not as consumer entertainment. Episodes work through the headlines affecting franchised dealers, independent retailers, car supermarkets, suppliers, lenders, and service operations. The pace is brisk. A typical edition moves from a topical opener into registration data, used-market indicators, finance regulation, EV adoption, manufacturer strategy, and sector commentary. The show is especially strong when numbers matter. Registration figures, CAP HPI values, EV readiness scores, first-year depreciation, finance agreement thresholds, and month-on-month market movement are treated as working evidence rather than decoration. Recent episodes have looked at a rise in new car registrations, March trade-value movement, fragile EV transition signals, and the FCA redress scheme. Other instalments focus on named industry figures and suppliers. Graeme Potts discusses Eden Motor Group, Skywell representation, new-car demand, leasing, and contract hire. Chris Plum brings a valuation view from CAP HPI. Umesh Samani speaks from the independent dealer side, with attention to IMDA activity, masterclasses, events, and the value of dealers leaving site to learn from peers. Supplier specials add another angle, such as Autoglym LifeShine’s paint, glass, and interior protection products for retailers. The show’s tone is steady, informed, and lightly conversational. It assumes the audience understands dealership categories, OEM pressures, finance products, aftersales, and the practical significance of a plate-change month. That assumption is part of the appeal. Motor Trade Radio gives trade listeners a compact read on what is changing, who is saying it, and why it matters at showroom, group, and supplier level.
Made for: For UK motor retail professionals, supplier teams, dealer group leaders, independent operators, and anyone tracking the commercial mechanics of car sales, aftersales, finance, and stock. It suits listeners who prefer trade context over consumer car talk.
What sets it apart: Its edge is the consistent dealer-operational filter: headlines are measured against demand, margin, values, compliance, stock mix, and franchise realities. The mix of weekly news, weekday specials, valuation commentary, and supplier features gives it more working texture than a standard automotive bulletin.
Motor Trade Radio, powered by MOTORS & Cazoo, is a weekly podcast serving the UK's car retailing sector. Every Saturday we share the latest headlines from across the media impacting the franchised, independent and car supermarket sectors, along with #AllTheChatterThatMatters with your hosts Philip Nothard and Curtis Hutchinson.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Motor Trade Radio connects automotive headlines to the pricing, regulatory and operational decisions facing UK car retailers.
Motor Trade Radio turns the business of selling cars into a working conversation about margins, regulation, demand and operational risk. Philip Nothard and Curtis Hutchinson move between headline discussions and interviews with figures inside UK motor retail, asking how market…
FCA redress calculations and electric van rollouts: your water-cooler gossip comes with dealer plates.
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A grounded Eden Motor Group interview on brand strategy, volume mix, and the limits of March's new-car growth headline.
Motor Trade Radio frames Graham Potts's automotive management career as the way into Eden Motor Group's current operating choices. As founder and CEO, Potts links his earlier roles at Inchcape and the RAC to Eden's approach to brand representation, including a used approved…
A dealer-focused Easter check-in that links FCA redress, March registrations, and the Q1 handoff.
The episode uses its Easter break slot to take stock of the FCA redress scheme and to bring Chris Plum's CapHPI market review into a March-and-Q1 catch-up.
A tight trade update on residual pressure, fragile EV progress, and the week's dealer numbers.
Motor Trade Radio keeps its focus on dealer pressure, moving cleanly from Car Dealer Live to the nearly new market and the AA's latest EV readiness index.
A grounded discussion on why independent dealers should stay connected to the wider trade.
Independent motor retail is given a practical, lived-in airing through the chairman of the Independent Motor Dealers Association, whose own route through the trade keeps the discussion grounded.
A clear, practical look at how a new electric van brand is building its UK dealer network.
Motor Trade Radio looks at the UK arrival of a new all-electric commercial vehicle brand through the practical question of who will sell and support it.
It links March trading pressure with the dealership details that help turn buyer interest into trust.
Motor Trade Radio looks at dealer confidence as the March plate change nears, tying first-quarter pressure to the practical details that can keep a used-car buyer engaged.
A clear trade-facing read on the FCA payout timetable, with the delay risk kept firmly in view.
Motor Trade Radio’s Easter-break episode keeps a tight focus on the FCA’s motor finance payout process and what its proposed structure may mean for timing across the sector.
Used-car industry talk with operational teeth.
Used-car retail timing, measured weekly.
American muscle, market sense, and garage truth.
Philip Nothard and Curtis Hutchinson host this Easter episode of Motor Trade Radio, covering key UK car retail headlines.
This episode of Motor Trade Radio covers key headlines from the UK car retailing sector.
Graham Potts joins a weekday special, and Motor Trade Radio gives him the proper trade build-up: Eden Motor Group, Inchcape, RAC, BEN and IMI, then straight into franchise representation and new car demand.
This episode reviews March's new car and van registrations, used market trends, and the week's headlines in the motor trade industry.
Easter break lands after a busy March.
This episode features a discussion with Anna Houldsworth from Autoglym about the company's LifeShine paint protection solutions and how they serve dealers in the automotive industry.
This episode features an interview with Chris Plum from CAP HPI discussing March's used car trade values, sector trends, and forecasts for April and Q2.
Philip Nothard and Curtis Hutchinson open on the last weekend of March.
Motor Trade Radio opens a special weekday edition with the chairman of the Independent Motor Dealers Association.
This episode discusses industry calls for a ZEV mandate review, Stellantis's investment in its dealer group, and pays tribute to Michael Buxton, a prominent figure in the automotive sector.
["Motor Trade Radio's OEM special puts Callum James, General Manager of Verizon UK, on the line to explain the brand's 2025 UK launch under Jameel Motors and Geely.", "James says the UK electric van market was about 30,000 units, or 9.5% of 318,000 new LCV registrations, and he argues Verizon arrives as a ground-up EV rather than a converted diesel.", "He says Verizon already has seven UK locations, including Pentagon Motor Group in Derby and Bridgend Ford in South Wales, and the dealer plan targets groups that understand uptime and electrification.", "The product pitch centers on the SV 3.5-tonne van, standard heated and ventilated seats, a heated steering wheel, payload monitoring, V2L sockets, and aftersales support built around the AA and DHL."]
This episode features an interview with David Manchester, founder of Automotive Assets, discussing M&A activity in the motor trade and his expertise in managing dealership property assets.
This episode discusses recent industry news including Apax pulling out of the Pinewood.AI acquisition, EVs and hybrids being the first choice for buyers, and Grainger buying another site, while also covering the upcoming March plate change and Car Dealer Live event.
This episode discusses recent automotive industry developments including EU rule changes on ICE sales and UK reviews of the ZEV Mandate, while also thanking guests from previous episodes.
This episode features an interview with Nancy Rignall, founder of Prospecting Dynamics, discussing her automotive career and consultancy work with dealer groups.