Director/PDMR Shareholding

Pendragon PLC
31 March 2008




31 March 2008



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                  PENDRAGON PLC ('Pendragon' or the 'Company')


Acquisitions  and disposals of ordinary shares

Following transactions occurring on 31 March 2008, the directors have notified
the Company that they have all invested their total net bonuses for 2007 in
Pendragon ordinary shares, and the number of shares each director has acquired
is as follows:-


Director             Number of Shares      Percentage of issued  Price per share
                     acquired              capital
T G Finn             191,017               0.0291%               £0.335
M S Casha            106,122               0.0162%               £0.335
D R Forsyth          74,286                0.0113%               £0.335
H C Sykes            53,062                0.0080%               £0.335



The directors have also notified the Company that following these purchases,
they have sold the following ordinary shares:-


Director             Number of Shares sold Percentage of issued  Price per share
                                           capital
T G Finn             191,017               0.0291%               £0.335
M S Casha            106,122               0.0162%               £0.335
D R Forsyth          74,286                0.0113%               £0.335
H C Sykes            53,062                0.0080%               £0.335



The executive directors' respective beneficial holdings in Pendragon ordinary
shares are detailed below:-


Director                    Holding                     % of Share Capital
T G Finn                    16,514,996                  2.517%
M S Casha                   5,101,972                   0.777%
D R Forsyth                 1,865,439                   0.284%
H C Sykes                   1,844,662                   0.281%



This announcement is intended to satisfy obligations under the Disclosure and
Transparency Rules 3.1.4R (1).

Conditional awards for 2008 under the Pendragon Long Term Incentive Plan 2008 
('LTIP')

The 2008 matching award and performance award under the LTIP was granted on 31
March 2008 to the executive directors listed below:-


Director                            Number of matching awards            Number of performance awards
T G Finn                            336,828                              1,439,440
M S Casha                           187,129                              799,689
D R Forsyth                         130,991                              559,782
H C Sykes                           93,566                               399,844



Matching awards are an award over a fixed number of ordinary shares that matches
(based on the gross amount a director would have invested were it not for the
deduction of tax and employee national insurance contributions) the number of
ordinary shares that the directors have chosen to purchase using annual bonus
for 2007.

The vesting of the matching and performance awards under the LTIP is subject to
the satisfaction of performance conditions based on growth in earnings per share
and total shareholder return over a three year period, details of which were set
out in a circular to shareholders dated 27 March 2006, and which are also set
out in the 2007 Annual Report and Accounts of the Company.

Following the grant of these awards, the total number of options over ordinary
shares in the Company held by each of the directors is as follows:-


Director                      Number of options
T G Finn                      3,060,190
M S Casha                     1,706,984
D R Forsyth                   1,216,698
H C Sykes                     880,965



HILARY C SYKES
31 MARCH 2008


Enquiries:     Pendragon PLC   Trevor Finn, Chief Executive    Tel: [phone]
                               David Forsyth, Finance Director

               Finsbury        Gordon Simpson                  Tel: [phone]



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