{"id":303135,"date":"2025-07-30T05:46:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303135\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T05:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:46:21","slug":"phillips-lisburn-lisburn-car-dealer-in-deep-shock-after-being-dropped-as-new-volkswagen-supplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/303135\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips, Lisburn: Lisburn car dealer\u00a0in \u2018deep shock\u2019 after being dropped as new Volkswagen supplier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Volkswagen has said just two Northern Ireland suppliers will now be stocking its new cars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/438b0211-9771-4ae1-84c2-7e669a58ad7e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Volkswagen has said just two Northern Ireland suppliers will now be stocking its new cars<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A car dealer in Co Down has expressed \u201cdeep shock and profound disappointment\u201d after it was dropped as a seller of new Volkswagen cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Phillips in Lisburn said the decision by the German-owned vehicle manufacturer means that it will stop selling new Volkswagen Passenger Cars from December this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volkswagen has said just two Northern Ireland suppliers will now be stocking its new cars A car dealer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1211,1384,778,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-303135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-antrim-news","9":"tag-down-news","10":"tag-margaret-canning","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114940607739413362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}