The owner of Sun GMC claims General Motors is starving the Long Island rooftop of the inventory it needs to remain in business and meet factory sales targets. +
Kerrigan Advisors’ Q1 Blue Sky Report finds multistore deals and soaring valuations helped drive a record 478 transactions over the past 12 months. +
QoreAI’s unified data infrastructure platform was purpose-built for automotive retail and features Lokam.ai as its first native agentic application partner. +
Agent, dealer and customer expectations may soon render the split-vendor model obsolete. NSD’s Rich Holland makes the case against fragmentation. +
Kelley Blue Book reports an average transaction price of $49,220 in May, down 0.5% from April but up 1.2% year over year amid heavier incentive spending. +
KCCI reports one of the five Des Moines-area dealerships operated by Karl Auto Group was struck by a cyberattack that is being investigated by the FBI. +
A New York City agency announced that Honda of the Bronx has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging more than 350 violations of consumer protection laws. +
EFG Companies’ Lifetime Start Battery Protection program uses routine maintenance and ownership verification checks to keep customers engaged. +
Lokam.ai, a new, voice-first, AI-powered sales and service platform built for dealerships and backed by its first customer, World Auto Group, is now online. +
Sales of new Mazdas and Subarus improved by 35% and 10% year-over-year in May, leading all U.S.-facing factories as fleets helped offset flat retail sales. +
