What Carvana Knows That We Don't

The David Spisak Show · Jun 18, 2026 · 26m

David Spisak walked into a dealership that had nearly 1,000 vehicles listed online.

The lot was empty.

No salespeople. No tower. No showroom buzz. Just a quiet operation that by every traditional measure shouldn't be working.

It's working.

In this episode, David takes you inside Carvana's CDJR store in Sacramento for an unscripted, unfiltered walkthrough that challenged assumptions he didn't even know he was carrying. What he found wasn't a gimmick. It wasn't smoke and mirrors. It was something far more unsettling for the industry: a different set of questions producing radically different…