NY Auto Forum Takeaways from Liza Borches

🚗 From Pranks to Prototypes

🚙 From unexpected builds to tighter margins, the signals are getting clearer.

JD Power Maintains 2026 New-Vehicle Sales Forecast, Asserts Ongoing Industry Resilience

Vehicle Portfolio Mix and Fuel Efficiency Improvements Make Current Market Dynamics Different than Previous Gas Shocks

🚗 Tension at the Tank

🚙 Fuel prices jump, Jeep production tightens, and pressure shows up across the system.

The Themes That Defined NYAF

This year’s NYAF brought the industry’s biggest pressure points into one room, and the clearest signals centered on discipline, adaptability, and staying close to the customer.

🚗 Who really owns your dealership data?

🚙 Tech hiring, pricing pressure, software bets, and a fresh compliance line dealers cannot ignore.

🚗 The Conversations Are Changing

🚙 Policy shifts, hesitant buyers, and global pressure all moving at once.

🚗 Affordability Is Tightening, and Dealers Feel It

🚙 Plus: March sales look solid and three great things about Maryland.

🚗 Customers are telling dealers exactly what to fix

🚙 A quick read on what customers keep saying, where EV competition is growing, and which bets are getting cut.

Your Customers Already Wrote the Playbook: Turning Dealer Reviews Into Action

The feedback opportunity for dealers

🚗 GM puts 200 eyes-off test vehicles on public roads

🚙 Plus this week's auto data breakdown, more news, and a VfC throwback!

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