This ‘Trading Floor’ For New Cars Just Went Bankrupt. Federal Records Show It Wasn’t Even Legally Cleared To Move Its Own Inventory
Somewhere between the factory and your local dealership’s lot, thousands of brand-new cars change hands...
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BYD’s Profit Jumped 30% While Sales Fell — Turns Out That Was the Plan
BYD wants the world to read this week’s earnings as an export success story. Look...
Porsche Signed A $1.46 Billion AI Deal. Investors Sold The Stock Anyway.
Porsche spent this week trying to sell investors a story about artificial intelligence. The stock...
Porsche Sold Its Own Consulting Arm, Then Paid Four Times as Much to Rent It Back
Porsche spent three decades building a consulting firm from scratch, spent 2023 buying out the...
A Stolen 1971 Chevelle Came Home After 33 Years. Now Its Owner Has to Prove It Exists
CHP recovered a 1971 Chevelle stolen from San Mateo County in 1993. The registration, insurance and title problems start now.
Dodge Is Building a Cop Car Again Because Police Never Cared About the V8 in the First Place
The last HEMI Charger Pursuit made 370 horsepower. The turbo six replacing it makes more. The missing V8 is the…
Reynolds and Reynolds Got a Manager to Sign a 66-Month DMS Extension. The Dealers Say It Wasn’t His To Sign.
Sixty-six months. That’s not a contract. That’s a sentence. A standard Reynolds and Reynolds dealer...
Three Car Dealers Paid $16 Million Over Discrimination Claims. The One That Refused to Settle Was Never Charged With It.
The FTC quietly stopped enforcing its dealer discrimination orders in November 2025. What actually governs markup now isn't the FTC…
Cars.com Promised to Invest in DealerClub. Then Came Layoffs, a New CEO, and an $88 Million Lawsuit
Every acquisition announcement contains a promise. Somebody says the acquired company will get more resources,...
The FTC Just Handed Car Dealers Back Their Favorite Financing Trick — And Called It Colorblind
Somewhere in a dealership finance office this week, a compliance manager who spent the last...
The $20,000 Used Car Didn’t Disappear. Automakers Discontinued It
Ask a dealer why a three-year-old Camry costs about what a loaded new one cost...
Dodge Brings Back the Super Bee With 600 HP — And Buries the Real News in the Fine Print
Read the press release Dodge sent out on August 7 closely enough, and it tells...
Cars.com Just Had a Record Quarter – By Politely Admitting Fewer People Are Showing Up
Cars.com told investors this week that it just posted the fastest revenue growth in its...
DoorDash Will Deliver Your Car Battery in Under an Hour — And AutoZone Wasn’t Invited
Somewhere in a strip-mall parts store that isn’t an AutoZone, isn’t an O’Reilly, and isn’t...
IIHS Releases Zero Driver Death List. Here’s Who’s Paying for It.
Six vehicles just posted a perfect record in the most sobering scorecard in the auto...