As senior vice president of Meetings, Conventions and Expositions for the National Automobile Dealers Association, Melissa Wolpert, CMP, directs the planning, production and execution of the annual NADA Show, the largest event in the U.S. auto industry. She also oversees the biannual American Truck Dealers Show and NADA’s annual legislative…

TYSONS, Va. (Sept. 18, 2019) — NADA President and CEO Peter Welch released the following statement in response to the EPA’s planned decision to withdraw a limited waiver it previously gave California to set its own vehicle fuel economy and GHG emissions rules: “NADA believes that the regulation of fuel economy and greenhouse gas…

New data out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that franchised dealerships added 80,200 jobs in May, an extremely encouraging sign for employment in U.S. automotive retail. At the end of February 2020 – prior to the coronavirus pandemic forcing the closure of many states – franchised dealerships directly employed more than 1.1…

To help dealers plan for the future, NADA's 2016 study The Dealership of Tomorrow: 2025 looked at how franchised dealerships could evolve over the next decade.

In this workshop, learn how to make your body shop the number one profit generator at the dealership by drilling down into staffing, processes, and technology. Recorded on February 1, 2024.

TYSONS, Va. (Feb. 16, 2020)— National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Chairman Charlie Gilchrist released the following statement in response to the U.S. Senate’s passage of H.R. 5430, a bill to implement the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA): “Today’s Senate vote to approve the USCMA is a big win for America’s new-car and -…

Jenell Ross is proud to tell the story of how her father, Bob Ross, attended the first General Motors Minority Dealer Development Academy in 1972 before buying his first dealership, a Buick-International Harvester-Opel dealership in Richmond, Ind. in 1974.

NADA presents a collection of various statutes, regulations and legislative material for ATAEs relating to prevalent issues affecting dealers from all 50 states.

In this webinar, dealers will hear from Business Succession Planners, The Rawls Group, and Dealership Buy-Sell Advisors, Haig Partners on how to future-proof your business and create control over the future you envision.

In this workshop, you'll review multiple recent, real-world cyberattacks in dealerships and learn what happened, the effects on the dealerships and what the dealers could have done to prevent these attacks. Recorded on March 12, 2022.