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Automotive Under 5, by AUTONOMi
Five minutes on what actually moved in automotive retail, dealer marketing, and the rules that touch a store. Monday to Saturday, first thing, hosted by Naomi Hale of AUTONOMi.
Episodes
- Automotive Under 5, by AUTONOMi
Group 1 Hits Record, GM Jumps to Nasdaq
Group 1 Automotive posted the kind of quarter other dealer groups get measured against: record US customer-pay revenue, a ten-store Hennessy acquisition in…
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AI Pricing Pressure Meets a Breach Warning
CBT News files three stories this morning on the same pressure point. AI is changing how shoppers find a dealership, and CarEdge's chief executive says the…
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Tariff Talks Resume, Lexus Recall Hits 68K
The scheduled jump to fifty percent on Canadian-built vehicles still hits January first, and nothing changes that yet. Reuters reports Washington and Ottawa…
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FTC Settles Over Pricing, Audi Picks Georgia
The price on the ad and the price on the order are not always the same number. This month two regulators and one state law all landed on that gap. CBT News…
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GM Adds Hybrids, Volvo Cuts Jobs Over Loss
Saturday's wire splits between a quarter that just closed and a model year still a year out. The Detroit News tallies the third quarter's sales winners and…
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October Pace Holds, Payments Hit Record
Sales volume isn't moving much this October, but the money underneath it is. J.D. Power's forecast has the industry buying its way to flat, with a record…
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NADA Elects Second Woman Chair Ever
NADA has elected Sandy Fitzgerald Angello as chairman for twenty twenty seven, the first woman in the role since two thousand eight. Auto Remarketing and NADA…
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CarGurus Named in NYC Pricing Suit
A city consumer agency has decided a marketplace's price badge counts as an advertising claim. That puts dealer fee structures into the evidence file of a…
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Carolinas Dealer Group Changes Hands
Larry Cloninger is out, Capital Automotive Group is in, and seven locations across two states now answer to new ownership. CBT News and Auto Remarketing both…
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Prices Climb Again, Wire Stays Busy
Average transaction prices just posted their fourth consecutive monthly rise, landing a few dollars short of December's record, Cox Automotive and Kelley Blue…
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Credit Stretches, Nissan Cuts EVs
A quarter of new-car buyers are now signing seven-year loans to make the payment work, Edmunds data cited by CarProUSA shows. The episode tracks that thread…
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Penske Goes Private, Prices Stall Near Record
One of the industry's largest public dealer groups is leaving the public market. Penske Automotive is going private in a sixteen point three billion dollar…
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A Recall With No Fix Yet
Hyundai is recalling about ninety-five thousand vehicles this morning over a seat motor that can overheat and catch fire, and NHTSA's instruction to owners is…
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Credit Loosens, Loan Terms Stretch Out
Credit access just reached an eleven-year high, CBT News reports, and the loan terms behind it are longer than dealers have seen before. That lands the same…
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Cox's Own Numbers Pull Two Ways
Cox Automotive put out two numbers this week that do not sit easily together: a seven point seven percent jump in US EV sales, and a lowered year-end outlook…
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Jeep's Showroom Push Stalls
Jeep spent heavily pushing dealers into costly, brand-focused stores. Automotive News reports the bet isn't paying off, with no figure yet on what reversing…
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Six Percent Up, Sixty-Seven Jobs Down
Saturday opens with the Stellantis strike vote still unresolved, CBT News and Automotive Dive both report. Jaguar Land Rover posts a six percent global sales…
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Mercedes Gains While China Drags Global Sales
Mercedes-Benz U.S. sales rose six percent in the third quarter, CBT News reports, in the same package that has China pulling global sales down eight percent…
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Asbury Clears, Dealer Pricing Law Draws Notice
A regulatory case against a public dealer group closes quietly this morning, while labour talks in Canada stay stuck. CBT News reports the FTC has dismissed…
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Nissan's Worst Stretch in Decades
Nissan posts its worst global sales pace in twenty-three years as a Unifor local weighs a strike against Stellantis. Hyundai's new infotainment system, a two…
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Loan Terms Hit a Record, Trucks Hold the Line
The average new-car loan now runs forty four thousand six hundred and sixty four dollars, and the payment behind it just cleared seven hundred eighty seven…
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Hybrids Carry Q3 While Hyundai Hits a Low
Third quarter sales data splits two ways this morning. Automotive News has hybrids and crossovers carrying the market as costs squeeze buyers, while kedglobal…
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Financing Records and a Flagship Opening
Saturday's wire carries a stack of numbers before the doors open. Edmunds finds six new records in financing terms for the third quarter, Auto Remarketing…
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GM Slips, Toyota Closes the Gap
GM's third quarter closed down five and a half percent, and the number hiding inside it is worse: Equinox EV sales fell over ninety percent. Toyota moved the…
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A Twenty-Six Billion Dollar Week for Hyundai
Hyundai is putting twenty-six billion dollars into US manufacturing this week, and five hundred million of it has a zip code: Alabama, for hybrid and…
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The Fuel Rule Goes Final
NHTSA has posted the signed Federal Register rule and the Final Regulatory Impact Analysis covering model years twenty twenty-two through twenty thirty-one…
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A Cheaper Fuel Rule, A Wider China Footprint
NHTSA has cut the fuel economy target for model year twenty thirty-one almost in half, and CBT News has the number that matters to a buyer standing on the lot…
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German Plants, A Recall Wave, One CEO's Ranger
Three German manufacturers now point to the same number: Volkswagen's profit margin is heading toward one percent. MotorBiscuit and CarBuzz report plant…
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Biggest Day, New Owners, Delayed Buzz
Today is the last Saturday of September, the single biggest day of the month for most stores, with four selling days left to close it out. This episode covers…
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Used-Car Steady, Brampton Plant Goes Permanent
Auto Remarketing's read on used-car pricing carried across three separate wire filings this morning, and VantageScore finds consumer credit resiliency showing…
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Two More Deals, One Bigger Rogue
Two more entries land on the buy-sell ledger this morning. Walser Automotive Group has closed its largest acquisition to date and brought Ford back into its…
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NADA's Nine-Day Window on Repair Data
Nine days separate NADA from either killing or losing the REPAIR Act, and CBT News lays out what's riding on it. A telematics mandate NADA prices at over a…
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DARCARS Ordered to Refund Over a Million
A million-dollar refund order out of New York puts a number on how far state regulators will go over dealer fees, and that leads a morning with plenty else…
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Wholesale Turns Negative, Toyota Sends Dealers to Washington
Wholesale used values just went negative year over year for the first time in twenty twenty-six. Cox Automotive's mid-September numbers show the drop running…
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Brampton Holds, One Recall Lands This Morning
Automotive News keeps Brampton in its weekly Canadian roundup this morning, alongside GM's return to V-8 pickup power and a Flavio Volpe warning on Canada's…
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Credit Acceptance Settles Six Years of State Scrutiny
Seven hundred million dollars closes six years of state scrutiny into one of the industry's biggest subprime lenders, and it lands the same week the Fed raises…
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Diesel Record, FTC's Fine Print, Brampton's Next Move
Diesel sits at a record six dollars thirty-one cents a gallon this week, up seventy percent from a year ago, and Auto Remarketing says the run-up is pushing…
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Ford's Bundle, Toyota's Cuts, Brampton's New Objector
One CBT News headline touches three parts of the store at once this morning: an expanded F-One-Fifty Carhartt package, a stalled path for Chinese vehicles into…
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Brampton's Buyer, Beijing's Merger Push
A buyer for Stellantis's Brampton plant is on the table, and the fight over what that plant becomes next is already underway. Automotive Dive has the sale…
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China Sales Slide Deepens for Japanese Brands
Toyota's China sales dropped more than twenty percent in August, and Honda and Nissan each fell close to fifty, according to finance dot biggo dot com, a…
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Credit Loosens, Brampton Plant in Play
Cox Automotive puts auto credit availability at its highest point in almost nine years, even as Automotive Dive finds affordability worries damping dealer…
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Copart Buys ACV as Ford Bets on Kentucky
One point nine billion dollars opens the week's remarketing story, as Copart moves to buy ACV, per Auto Remarketing. The same morning, Ford commits a billion…
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Trump Signs Five Tariff Proclamations on Canada
Five new proclamations from the White House land on Canadian vehicles, dairy and alcohol, with one set of duties widening September fifteenth and an outright…
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Dealer Sentiment Slips as Ford Faces China Pressure
Dealer sentiment just turned lower, and Cox Automotive's own survey says so. That is this morning's most-filed story, and it lands the same week Jaguar Land…
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JLR Cuts Four Thousand Jobs as Tariffs Bite
Jaguar Land Rover is cutting about four thousand jobs, and its own suppliers are telling The Guardian the cuts threaten their survival too. Volkswagen sells a…
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SAAR Hits Its Best Month of the Year
August closed at a sixteen point eight million selling rate, the strongest month of the year and the sixth straight above sixteen million, per Cox Automotive…
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Cox Automotive's Credit Data Gets Its First Win
Five different outlets covered the same story this week, which makes it worth trusting: Auto Remarketing and Digital Dealer report Westlake Financial is…
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Cox Wires Credit Data Into Dealertrack
Four outlets picked up the same story this morning: Cox Automotive is embedding Nova Credit's cash-flow data into Dealertrack, and it lands right inside the…
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Volvo's Sales Slide Hits Its Own Tech Hub
Volvo's sales are down seven point four percent globally, and the company just closed its own flagship tech hub to help pay for it. That's the kind of…
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Hyundai's Worst Month in Four Years
Hyundai just posted its worst month in four years, and the reason is a Korean labor strike that cut home production by more than forty percent. That lands the…
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Canada's Tariff Number Finally Moves
Six outlets filed the same story this morning: Toyota and Honda take the biggest hit as Canada's twenty billion dollar tariff retaliation lands, CBT News and…
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GM Canada Ratifies Deal as Tariffs Bite
Canadian GM workers just ratified a new contract that brings the Sierra Heavy Duty to Oshawa and keeps the CAMI plant open, according to the Globe and Mail and…
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Tariffs Reshape Production While Sales Hold Steady
Sales sit at a steady sixteen point four million unit rate while Canada answers tariffs with twenty billion dollars in retaliation, and CBT News frames that…
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Carvana's Service Gap, Franchise Protest Fails
Seven Stellantis stores now belong to Carvana, and rival dealers want to know who handles the oil changes, recalls, and warranty work once those cars hit the…