Category: Franchise System

Today, new-vehicle buyers spend 7 hours-out of a total of 13 hours and 4 minutes of total shopping time-researching their purchase online. And 74 percent of today’s vehicle buyers end up buying the vehicle they researched...

Local dealerships provide gainful employment for more than a million people nationwide, and companies doing business with dealerships employ another million workers. 1.Dealerships Create Jobs New-car and -truck dealerships...

Recently GM, Ford, Kia and Hyundai/Genesis have been very public with condemnations of dealers who are pricing vehicles at higher than usual prices, despite unprecedented market conditions. Dealerships are facing a 40-year low...

By Patrick Manzi, NADA Chief Economist Recent media coverage about rising new-vehicle prices fails to account for unprecedented market conditions in the retail auto market. The analysis that follows (which is largely based on...

Online car buying has seen a dramatic increase during the COVID-19 pandemic. But sister station WGAL found a Pennsylvania woman – and thousands of other consumers – are telling a cautionary tale of car buying online. For Sandy...