Good morning! It’s Tuesday, August 13, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
A wave of car thefts is sweeping dealerships across Michigan this month, as a group of organized criminals has made off with hundreds of cars worth millions of dollars. Now, …
CDK Global, a software platform designed to streamline car sales that’s in use at nearly 15,000 dealerships across North America, has been hamstrung for several days due to cyberattacks, and …
Around 15,000 car dealers across the country have been impacted by the cyberattack on CDK Global, a company that dealers use to handle the financial aspects of the transaction. While …
Good morning! It’s Friday, June 21, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
Car dealers have done some pretty despicable things in recent years, including piling on sky-high charges on every car sold and even selling a car that its owner had simply …
A woman in Knoxville, Tennessee had to turn to a local news station’s “Help Me” consumer affairs guy after a used car dealership sold her Ford Taurus out from under …
Selling cars is often a soul-crushing grind. So it’s understandable that dealership employees might feel pressure to cut corners. As one New England dealership recently found out, though, if you …
Image: Fred Beans Fred Beans Automotive Group has acquired four Abington, Pennsylvania dealerships, as well as a collision center from Rosenthal Automotive Organization. According to Automotive News, the dealerships Fred …
Car dealers are terrified of direct sales. They see protecting the franchise sales model as paramount. I mean, how else are they going to charge for crap you don’t need …