What will 2022 hold for dealers? Barring any shocking external events or radical movements by the federal government, which includes either Washington, D.C., government or the Fed itself, 2022 has the potential to be a historic year at the retail level. It has the potential to be. That’s with a […]
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Lincoln dealers: Preparing for the coming EVs
What does days’ supply look like? If you look at the top 100 stores, they’re at a 15-day, 16-day supply or lower. Our store for the last eight months has been in the single-digit day supply. We and others have really beefed up used-car purchasing from outside, carrying as many […]
Toyota dealers: Improving customer experience a top priority
How deep are you selling into your pipeline? Right now, of my F-status vehicles, or freight status vehicles — the vehicles coming at me — 95 percent of them are sold, and they’ll all be sold probably within a day as they keep coming in. And we’re selling well into […]
VW, Porsche, Bentley, Audi and Lamborghini dealers begin to sort out the aftermath of Felicity Ace cargo ship fire
The burned hulk of the vacated vehicle carrier Felicity Ace could be under tow and on its way back to a European port as early as Wednesday, less than a week after it caught fire while on its way to deliver a load of nearly 4,000 Volkswagen Group vehicles from […]