Weekly Briefing: How AI is rapidly reshaping the car industry

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

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 explains how AI was a recurring theme across our sessions at Car Dealer Live yesterday.

From dealers using it to make car buying decisions, to those deploying it to answer customer enquiries, AI is rapidly reshaping the automotive world.

He rounds-up Google’s session which covered the topic in detail and the tips for dealers that came out of a series of sessions that explored how car buyers are changing the way they search for cars.

Also this week:

  • Iran War impacting car buying?
  • Peugeot MD on EV incentives
  • Close Bros to slash jobs
  • Latest from Big High Court trial
  • Bentley to cull jobs
  • Targa Florio appoints liquidators
  • Stellantis & You results
  • Carvana video

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AI is transforming how car dealers operate, from purchase decisions to customer service automation.

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This shift could fundamentally change the traditional car buying experience and dealer-customer relationships.

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Google provided detailed guidance on AI implementation during the Car Dealer Live conference sessions.