The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 14, 2024

Image: Nissan Nissan dealers in the United States are living through a traumatic experience. Profitability has plummeted to its worst in 15 years, leaving almost 40% of Nissan's 1,071 dealers hemorrhaging money. Dealers are suggesting Nissan needs to trim the fat, possibly reducing the number of stores by up to 40%.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 27, 2025

Last week didnt just bring snow to New Orleans, it also brought a raft of Stellantis dealers to town for a key meeting and most of them left feeling revved up about the year ahead. One went so far as to describe the event as shockingly good, a superlative rarely leveled at suits by dealer principals.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 10, 2024

Cutting new-car prices is a great way to boost sales, but it’s not always kind to the dealers stuck with the inventory. Nissan gave its franchisees authorization to sell vehicles below invoice, but some stores are unhappy with the brand’s shifting attitudes toward their profitability.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 3, 2024

Dan O’Brien auto group used to operate three Kia stores in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, but the automaker isn’t happy with how things ended. In early May, it filed a lawsuit against the dealer , claiming racketeering, fraud, and stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in incentives.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 14, 2023

Over the weekend, your author happened upon a rural Ford dealership seemingly frozen in time, still using signage from past decades and proudly eschewing whatever cold corporate design is currently being foisted upon dealer principals by The Suits in Dearborn. It was neat to see a store embrace its heritage. Texas, ya’ll.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 24, 2024

dealer network , giving it stores in several new areas and growing its footprint to 18 dealerships in seven states. VinFast added 12 stores, with new dealerships in Connecticut and Kentucky, five new locations in Florida, and four in Texas. The company recently announced an expansion to its U.S.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 16, 2024

While best known for its commercial trucking services, Penske has been ramping up dealer acquisitions, buying out trucking rivals and trying to expand its already sizable footprint in both Europe and Australia. While those types of dealerships still exist, they’re losing ground to larger dealer networks. in Massachusetts.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 23, 2024

Mitsubishi likewise wants to broaden the reach of its dealer network and is presently considering alternative retail concepts in addition to more traditional expansion plans. The dealer network size "limits our ability to go to the next level in share and sales volume," Chaffin said. sales market. executives.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 30, 2025

The dealer also expressed sour grapes about even having a charger -- the store didn't want to spend the money on one and claims to have never sold an EV. The dealership claims it was upfront with the driver about its $5.99 This is a one-off incident and it appears to be a "he said, he said" situation in terms of communicating costs.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 1, 2024

& We're rolling out Ford University to Ford dealers across the United States starting May 1, with plans to expand further. .& & We're rolling out Ford University to Ford dealers across the United States starting May 1, with plans to expand further. The video is then graded by A.I.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 22, 2024

The Blue Oval recently asked its suppliers to help it cut costs and announced early on that its dealers would need to make significant investments to continue selling its electric models. Now, the company is telling dealers to pause further investments while it reviews the requirements of its EV certification program.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 20, 2023

After weathering pandemic-related shutdowns, chip shortages, and barren lots, some dealers are complaining our nation’s rail system is suddenly no longer up to the task of delivering new cars. A few are saying they have a point, whilst others muse it is a bit of karma for three years of price gouging and “additional dealer markups”.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

According to the 2024 Dealer Outlook Survey, 83 percent of respondents said the government was pushing the transition toward EVs too quickly and mucking up the auto market. As for dealers, there’s some amount of disagreement as to what’s holding EVs back. EVs are definitely not a want of our guests today.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 29, 2025

Sure, theyre fairly easy to discern when parked cheek-to-jowl on a dealer lot but are more difficult to tell apart in vacuum. This new one is planned to hit stores before the end of this year. The last Cherokee was a good-looking rig slightly hampered by a smaller-than-average cargo area. Images: Jeep] Become aTTAC insider.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 1, 2024

There are likely thousands of flooded vehicles strewn across several states at the moment, sitting in concentrated numbers on dealers’ lots. One Florida Kia dealer was hit especially hard, saying that it lost 672 cars to the storm. million to the insurance company. million to the insurance company.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Oh, and there was a multi-day stay at the dealer for an important recall. Discount Tire (Tire Rack) had them in stock and on sale, and would ship them to a local store in a couple of days. I think in a past service under warranty a dealer should probably have updated the software gratis and prevented the issue.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 17, 2023

Apparently, Vargason and his store weren't remitting employees' voluntary retirement contributions to their accounts during 2019. This is where Nissan of St. Charles owner Fred Vargason was forced to pay more than $13,000 out of his personal accounts toward his employees' retirement funds.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As things currently stand, customers will still need to go to a Hyundai retail store to pick up their ride. While this means you probably wont have to talk numbers with a dealer, who will undoubtedly try to upsell you on something, it also means you also dont get to haggle. But it does limit your ability to negotiate significantly.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Smaller dealerships simply didn’t want to pay to have fast chargers installed at their stores. EVs adoption varies broadly between geographic regions, making it hard for some stores to see the point of spending so much when so few of their customers are interested. Despite having fewer dealers, Buick said its U.S.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 16, 2023

Dealer franchise laws are controversial at best and downright divisive in most cases, but they remain a significant force in the automotive industry despite the political noise surrounding them. Dealer franchise laws prevent that in most cases. & [Image: Hunter Crenian via Shutterstock] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Suits at the Blue Oval have binned a scheme which saw yet-to-be-delivered EVs stored at so-called rapid replenishment centers instead of dealer lots. At the risk of massive oversimplification, floorplan refers to money a dealer is borrowing for purposes of financing its inventory. However, dealers will be dealers.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 6, 2024

It would be easy to draw a direct correlation between any changes in EV demand and the sudden uptick in new or near-new Tesla vehicles which have been stored at the soon-to-be-demolished Chesterfield Mall. So they are renting space within the parking lot to store their cars.” The nearby St.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Scout Motors ruffled dealers’ feathers when it announced a direct-to-consumer sales model, but the automaker isn’t sidestepping physical locations altogether. The company announced several store locations across key U.S. The stores will be Scout Studios, where advisors can help customers order a new Scout and owners can get service.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 30, 2024

The cause behind some of this is certainly buyers’ behavior, but it’s a bit of a chicken-or-egg scenario with dealers. People buy the cars that dealers stock, and an overly cautious store might only want colors it knows it can sell, leaving buyers with fewer choices.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 21, 2023

The automaker has asked some dealers to close Jaguar stores and has enticed them to move with extra allocations of popular Land Rover models.& We don’t know how many dealers will ultimately give up Jag in the U.S., but it will be much more difficult for the brand to get around dealer franchise laws to sell direct.

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JUNE 16, 2025

Check out her personal blog. She lives in White River Junction, Vermont. She has previously worked for Fast Company, the Guardian, News Deeply, Time, and others. Message Michelle on Twitter or at michelle@9to5mac.com. Michelle Lewiss favorite gear MacBook Air Light, durable, quick: Ill never go back.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

No, through a traditional dealer network, it seems – even though information on the whys, whats, and wherefores of that puzzle piece are still up in the air. Company brass are promising to “soon announce its first wave of appointed dealers”, stating they have “spent a long time selecting an exceptional team.”

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 16, 2023

this means dealer allocation will prioritize powertrains based on how restrictive the local emissions standards happen to be. The automaker told dealers in April that the CARB states are enforcing tougher greenhouse gas standards retroactively to the 2021 model year. & For Stellantis brands (e.g.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 29, 2023

An Oklahoma teen recently flipped the script on that narrative and is accused of defrauding an Oklahoma City dealer out of almost $100,000. In mid-April, Bailey approached the dealership with an Acura MDX, and when the store ran the numbers, it found that he only owed $1,713.23. They appraised the SUV at $48,000 and cut a $46,272.97

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Now, Edmunds is reporting a similar experience, with its almost-new long-term Blazer EV test vehicle recording dozens of errors and weeks in the dealer repair department. The publication sent its SUV to the dealer, where it’s been for more than two weeks so far, requiring support from a GM technician and surrounding stores.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 2, 2024

Keep in mind this is a package which fuels just about every corner of a dealership, from sales to service, meaning it has been a chaotic couple of weeks for certain stores. Is ‘inputted’ a word?

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 30, 2024

Mitsu claims a network of “over 300” dealer partners in the United States. However, there is a notable gap in listed stores through places like California where the EV market is quite robust; this lopsided presence may have a negative effect on the plan. The maps above show Mitsu dealer locations and existing VinFast service depots.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced

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Open Source Civic EV Kit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

If these dowels were not salvageable, order new ones from the dealer for your make of vehicle. The info for ordering the alignment pins, in case you lost them is in this blog post. Make sure you bring along the original mounting bolts from the transmission with you to the bolt store to verify the proper threads.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 24, 2024

It runs Google Built-In, which brings Play Store functions, Google Assistant, Maps, and more. Cadillac will start production this summer, and the cars should start hitting dealers late in the season or early fall of 2024. Cadillac includes performance displays with data on car status, lap times, and engine temperatures.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 24, 2023

He dropped the car at a local dealership using the weekend key drop, and a call to the store on Monday revealed that the dealer would not fix the car under warranty because of the track use. It turns out that the failure was just the beginning of Luke’s trouble.

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JUNE 8, 2023

That’s when the boutique manufacturer introduced its North American dealer network.& & The new stores will be located in Philadelphia, Greenwich, and Newport Beach — thanks to BAC having hooked up with RDS Automotive Group. While you could already purchase BAC products in the U.S. you had to import them until 2017.

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