🚗 Protect Gross, Win Used, Get Sharp on Equity

🚙 January data points to a simple play: tighter new deals, smarter used sourcing, and stricter structure as negative equity rises—while policy shifts keep EV demand uncertain.

🚗 Mix Is Holding Prices Up

🚙 If you want a fast “most clickable” pick: #2 tends to win when the number is the story, but #1 is the most dealer-forward.

🗓️ Ford’s 2025 Year-End Results: Earnings Miss, Record Charges, and a Reset for 2026

Ford’s full-year 2025 financial results are out, and the headline is a mix of hard reality and forward-looking reset.

🚗 Would You Sell Chinese Brands?

🚙 NADA’s most divisive floor debate meets fresh Cox signals: softer new, firmer used, tighter incentives—and a 2026 gut-check on affordability vs opportunity.

A Year Later: Reviewing CDP Claims from ASOTU CON 2025.

Customer Data Platforms promised clarity. One place for your data. One profile for every guest. Real-time activation across channels.

🚗 The EV Bill Comes Due

🚙 Stellantis just priced the EV reset in public—expect the impact to show up first in incentives, availability, and the trims you can actually move.

🚗 The Week at NADA

🚙 Season 2 is coming, plus a quick-hit recap of the week’s biggest dealer takeaways—then a wild Porsche patent to end your Saturday.

🚗 Dealers: NADA Wins + a Hands-Free Wave

🚙 Congrats to TIME Dealer of the Year David Wright—plus a quick heads-up on hands-free laws rolling out in SC, IA, and FL.

Northwood University and NADA Announce Partnership to Drive the Future of Automotive Leadership

Northwood University and the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) have announced a new education partnership aimed at expanding access to undergraduate and graduate degree programs for America’s franchised new-car and truck dealers, their employees, and their families.

2026 TIME Dealer of the Year: David Wright Honored at NADA Show for Leadership and Community Service

Rob Cochran Becomes 2026 NADA Chairman

Cochran will lead America’s Franchised Dealers Through Transformative Period in Automotive Retail

🚗 The Last Full Day at NADA

🚙 Shorter visits, fewer handoffs, rising satisfaction, and small details that quietly reduce risk