🚗 The Spring Market Equation

🚙 Inventory is back, but affordability is still the variable everyone’s solving for.

🚗 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