😎 Chilling With The Cool Kids

TOGETHER WITH

Being consistent and trying new ideas are not opposites.

Growing and stagnating are opposites though.

What are you trying today to grow your business that you didn’t try yesterday?

Keep Pushing Back,
-Paul, Kyle, & Chris

DEALERS

Fourth Grade Visits and Funding The Future

The Gettel Automotive Group is celebrating its tenth year serving its community through Project TEACH (Teach Everyone About Career Horizons). 👩‍🏫

📚 By partnering with the Manatee Chamber of Commerce and the Manatee country school district, the people of the Gettel Group have given their time and money to support students on their way to greatness. 👏

👨‍💼 This year, the group sent 10 volunteers to visit with 4th graders and discuss their work. For many students, it is their first time meeting and hearing from people in the business world, let alone the automotive industry. 👧

💰While the personal touch of in-classroom visits is excellent, Gettel is a pro at putting their money where their mouth is. A $25K donation to Take Stock in Children was matched by Toyota for a total donation of $50K! The money will bring education opportunities to at-risk students.

Telling it like it is – If at least one kid learned they can work for a better future, then we say this whole project is a massive success. Fantastic work, Gettel!

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TOGETHER WITH UPSTART AUTO RETAIL

90 Extra Minutes…

What can you do with an extra 90 minutes?

• Watch a soccer match?

• Learn to juggle?

• Try to figure out how they get so many bubbles in soda?

Leif Johnson Ford is reclaiming an extra 90 minutes per showroom deal thanks to Upstart Auto Retail!

Testimonials by store leadership share that their team was on board and up to speed in just one month. Add to the raving customer reviews, and Upstart Auto Retail moves from an option to the obvious choice!

Join the fast lane, streamline your sales, and make time for what really counts - like that soda mystery. Contact Upstart Auto Retail to enter the future of efficient, customer-friendly auto retailing.

AROUND THE ASOTU-VERSE

Getting Personal With ATUC

People love doing business with people. Branding is helping consumers connect what you do to who you really are so they move beyond transactions and into relationships.

This morning, we will discuss the effects of personal branding on marking with David Long and the All Things Used Cars community. Join us!

AUTOMOTIVE

Motor Morsels: Tesla, Hyundai, China, Lucid

Musk-Golia. Elon Musk is adding globe-trotting to his resume. Rumors say a $4.5B investment may bring a Tesla factory to Spain, while in Mongolia, Musk is pointing at battery minerals and asking, "y'all using these?" to gauge interest in a battery plant. Of course, it isn't all Tesla. SpaceX's Starlink could be a win-win addition to the Musk-Golia (Musk and Mongolia) partnership.

Not Kiaboyz. Hyundai Motor America donated $50,000 to two Savannah organizations as part of its community investment strategy in Georgia. Savannah State University will receive $25K for STEM scholarships. Another $25K will aid child passenger safety and driver education programs at the Dwaine & Cynthia Willett Children's Hospital and Safe Kids Savannah.

More-More. Chinese leaders think the only thing better than more is more-more! Following a 7.3% passenger vehicle sales increase in May, the country launched a nationwide campaign to stimulate automobile purchases and bolster demand in the world's largest auto market. The initiative will encourage lending for auto purchases and promote replacing gasoline cars with new energy vehicles. New EV incentives could lead to a wave of investments similar to the US after the Inflation Reduction Act or devastate the local bicycle market. It is anybody's guess.

Speaking of China... US luxury electric vehicle maker, Lucid Group, is preparing to enter the Chinese market, confirmed by the company's head of China operations, Zhu Jiang. While initially selling imported cars, Lucid is also considering local production in the country. This move comes as Lucid is set to raise about $3 billion through a stock offering.

TL; DR - Tesla may expand production to Spain and Mongolia, Hyundai is spreading education in Georgia, China incentivizes new-energy auto sales, and Lucid prepares to join the largest auto market in the world.

CULTURE

From Solar Power to Waspinator

The largest floating solar farm in North America, owned by NJR Clean Energy Ventures, is now online in New Jersey. The 8.9 MW array, covering 17 acres, powers 1,400 homes and 95% of a local water treatment plant's needs. The water-cooled panels increase efficiency and reduce evaporation so people can enjoy energy and save water.

You know who else likes water? Crocodiles! Like one nameless new mother in a Costa Rican zoo who, after 16 years in isolation, "gave birth" to a fully formed baby croc. It isn't the first "virgin birth" recorded in a similar situation. In 2018 an alligator in the US laid a similarly "populated" egg. Unfortunately, none of these fatherless hatchlings survived, but they have given scientists a lot to think about.

Do robots have dads at all? Transformers: Rise of the Beasts tried to serve nostalgia, but many say it missed the essential points that made the "Beast Wars" series a classic. The story prioritizes the human-robot friendship between the lead characters at the expense of the Robo-Trex Vs. Robo-Gorilla action we came to see. Also, where is our boy, Waspinator?? Missed opportunity.

Quick Hits

• Jobless claims hit two year high at 261,000. 👷‍♀️

• For its 30th anniversary, Jurassic Park will be rereleased on a 4K UHD.

• Legendary soccer GOAT Lionel Messi joins Inter Miami team. ⚽️🐐

History

• 1898: Luigi Fagioli, the oldest winning F1 driver, is born. 🏎️

• 1928: Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross. ✈️

• 1934: Disney’s Donald Duck appears for the first time in The Wise Little Hen. 🐥