Andy Goss, chairman of AM100 motor retailer Vertu Motors and a former car sales boss of Jaguar Land Rover, Porsche and Toyota, sends a warning to the new Labour Government that the tough targets for driving motorists into electric cars are a blunt instrument that unintentionally may speed the exit of some franchised dealer groups.
There can be little doubt that the new Labour government has experienced the shortest honeymoon period ever. They walked into government with an expectation that there were inevitably some real big issues to resolve, especially in the political arena.
Of that there was no doubt. However, their expectation of trouble ahead would’ve been tempered by the fact that the economy was in much better shape than of recent times with low inflation and interest rates about to fall.
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SCatlin - 12/09/2024 09:09
Whilst the challenges for the industry laid out here are very real and concerning, I think we need to be careful about how the industry talks about this. Using phases like "so called 'Climate Crisis'" has the potential to be read as either not understanding, or worse, not caring about the gravity of the environmental situation we all face.