“There are a lot of things that it’s going to do better than we can,” said Jeff Laethem, who heads a Buick and GMC dealership in Detroit. Laethem uses an AI product to help manage customer phone calls ...

Artificial intelligence is now in dealers’ website chatbots, text and voice assistants, sales lead tools, repair schedulers, ...

The legal battle stems from Florida’s dealership laws, which prohibit manufacturers from competing with their own franchisees. Scout Motors, following the lead of companies like Tesla, Rivian, and ...

Independent dealers usually don’t have as much overhead ... and an ability to handle the sales process remotely. One national car dealer is AutoNation, which has more than 300 locations in ...

A group of Florida Volkswagen and Audi dealerships filed a lawsuit against Scout Motors over its direct-to-consumer retail ...

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Some oil marketers are beginning to change the logo of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited on their filling stations, as the dealers dump the franchise deals with NNPCL due to the stiff ...

This means the U.S. auto industry won't be completely free from tariff hell. Models underpinned by components sourced from ...