🚗 Ford Expands AI As Gas Prices Climb

🚙 Plus: why used pressure is rising, Lucid gets “great news,” and Michael Cirillo hits 700 episodes.

Affordability, Credit Risk, and Digital Pressure Are Redefining Auto Retail

🚗 Inventory Is Back, Affordability Still Isn’t

🚙 Plus: A simple content play for today, a strange new Mercedes, and Jim Farley picking a very public fight for the stick shift.

New-Car Inventory Is Back. Affordability Still Isn’t Fixed.

More Cars on the Lot Doesn’t Mean the Affordability Problem Is Solved

🚗 Wholesale prices are rising again

🚙 Plus: tax refunds are helping demand, Scout slips to 2028, and Toyota shows what a $15K EV can do

Retail Auto Market Update

March 10, 2026

🚗 Your customers may be counting themselves out too early

🚙 Plus: EV incentives, Zoox expansion, shopper hesitation

Why Car Dealerships Are Changing Hands Right Now

🚗 Used Prices Rise, Incentives Return, EVs Cut

🚙 Plus: global shipping pressure, event dates, and one smart AI prompt

🚗 The Signals Dealers Should Notice

🚙 Reliability lists, hybrid momentum, and why service keeps carrying the dealership.

🚗 Service is back (and dealers are feeling it)

🚙 Two markets are forming at once—OEMs widen powertrain choice, EV makers chase scale, and dealers keep winning with dependable used and serviceable cars

Service Lane Optimism Is Back: The Q1 Fixed Ops Data Dealers Should Use Right Now

Cox’s Q1 sentiment rebound shows where profit is headed, and three simple social scripts help you turn it into booked appointments.