🚗 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.

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

🚗 Midweek on the NADA Floor

🚙 Hybrid-heavy winners, surprise safety misses, fading nameplates, and a little cost relief for buyers

🚗 F&I’s Up, Margins Are Tight

🚙 What the latest benchmarks show, a fresh EV incentive push, and a small design rule with big ripple effects

🚗 What Dealers Are Feeling as Affordability Splits the Market

🚙 Payments are still rising even when sticker prices aren’t—so shift the focus to used/CPO, ownership-cost coaching, and service retention as the funnel tightens.