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With 2009 expected to be one of the toughest years yet for auto retailing, the incoming chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association issued a call-to-action Monday.
Read More →The Red Flag Rule will definitely be a hot topic at this year's National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) convention. Here are a few questions to help you find the right solution.
Read More →So it’s official. We’re in a recession and have been since December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Read More →I was asked at the magazine’s September F&I Conference and Expo when I thought this mess we’re in would turn around. My response was, “Ask me again this time next year.”
Read More →Nothing could describe the month of July better than a headline I read in CNW Market Research’s July 16 newsletter. It read: “Time to Panic: Industry Pushes Into Auto DefCon4.” I wonder what the headline would have read if the newsletter was released nine days later.
Read More →Reality checks are always difficult to swallow. You want to hear the truth, but at the same time you really don’t. That’s what I wrestled with when one of my readers reminded me that F&I is really a reactionary department.
Read More →Is it me or is just about everyone looking for that one kink in the armor of our business? Yes, blame the subprime-mortgage market all you want, but the reality is that it’s going to be guilt by association from here on out. What’s important now is that we don’t prove those “Chicken Littles” right.
Read More →Much has been made of the ongoing data-access debate. My question is how it impacts F&I departments. Several readers have said there are other more critical issues to be concerned about than whether the newest software tool can communicate with their DMS. I beg to differ.
Read More →Approximately 26,500 attendees of the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA)’s annual convention saw the latest and greatest, but it seemed as though the big news came out in the weeks following.
Read More →With the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Convention only three days away (at press time), it has been a bit of a scramble to get the March issue out the door. Happily, I can say we have one heck of an issue this month, with technology taking center stage.
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