Used car salesman could face criminal trial over extensive clocking allegations – Car Dealer Magazine Zainal Abidin, 28/11/2025 A used car salesman could face a criminal trial after he was accused of clocking vehicles before selling them.Grzegorz Seczwokski, 39, appeared at Oxford Crown Court last Thursday (Mar 14), charged with a single count of fraud in relation to his company, GNA Car Sales Ltd.The car dealer, of Abingdon in Oxfordshire, is said to have offered multiple vehicles with fake milometer readings between September 22, 2021 and October 29, 2022.This is Oxfordshire reports that during a brief hearing last week, Seczwokski’s legal team made an application for the charges to be dismissed.The motion will be put before the same court in May with a trial due to set place on February 24 next year if the application is rejected.Last week, National Trading Standards warned used car dealers that they needed to take every possible step to avoid selling cars that have been clocked.Owen Kennedy, lead officer for motor sales for the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, told Car Dealer that retailers could still be prosecuted, even if they don’t know a vehicle’s mileage has been tampered with.He advised all dealers to get a mileage history check carried out by an external provider and… Continue Reading
From supercars to superminis – why data can help dealers buy better cars – Car Dealer Magazine Zainal Abidin, 20/08/2025 We all know that data is very often the key to a successful car retailing operation, but with so many providers of such information present on the market, trying to find the right one isn’t an easy process.Perhaps the answer is to go with a provider who has first-hand experience. Simon Hunt co-founded Brego in 2019 after wanting to buy smarter cars and not lose thousands of pounds in depreciation.He admits that after feeling the pain of selling his beloved Jaguar XK and taking a hit on the depreciation, he set out to build a platform that could help people such as him and dealers make better buying decisions.‘If I could tell how much a car was going to be worth in the future, then I could buy smarter, make smarter buying decisions and better cars,’ he told Car Dealer Live in the video at the top of the story.‘I quickly realized that the motor trade was also very interested in having accurate valuations data, so Brego branched out from there.’The Surrey-based business initially started out by providing data on supercars, based on evidence that such data was harder to come by for dealers. It… Continue Reading