When I rang in the New Year with my wife, Sue, and our family, I could scarcely believe that the flashing numbers on the television heralded 2-0-1-8. As a father and grandfather, I wondered what the future has in store for my family. And as a truck dealer, I wondered what it has in store for the commercial truck industry. If you’ve thought the…

Winners will be announced at American Truck Dealers (ATD) Show 2018 in Las Vegas in March. John Arscott, CEO of The Pete Store in Baltimore, Md., is one of seven nominees for 2018 Truck Dealer of the Year – a national award that recognizes commercial-truck dealers for business performance, industry and civic leadership…

Shortly after taking over as President and CEO of Volvo, Anders Gustafsson made an ambitious plan to meet with all 300 of the Swedish automaker’s U.S. dealers in one week. The meetings were intended to forge stronger partnerships with dealerships, while creating a forum to discuss the launch of a new subscription service: Care by…

Why should your dealership invest in multichannel digital marketing for the service and parts department? Your current service customers are your future pipeline of sales for the dealership. It's good business to invest in digital marketing for the service and part departments knowing they too can contribute to the sales side of the…

Mobility as a Service (MaaS), also known as car sharing or ride sharing, is having a major impact on consumer transportation today and is predicted to grow exponentially over the next decade. Companies like Uber, Lyft and ZipCar, as well as electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles, are widely forecast to change the landscape of mobility as we now…

Not long ago, I was speaking on motivating Millennials to a large room full of government contractors when a woman in the back interrupted me. “Can’t we just tell them, 'Because I told you so?',” she said. Seriously. We had been discussing the Millennial need to know "why", and this woman had grown frustrated with…

Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Kaellenius told Reuters the automaker's newest electric vehicle architecture, launching with the CLA compact electric sedan late next year, will target 30% to 35% more driving range for each kilowatt-hour of energy stored in the battery than the brand's current EVs.

Ford Motor said on Friday it expects to take about $270 million charge for a previously announced recall related to rearview camera for some models of its sports utility vehicles (SUV) and vans.

BMW AG is unveiling a fully electric platform for its Mini brand as the automaker looks to leverage its popular three-door hatchback to compete with a range of smaller Chinese battery-powered vehicles pushing into Europe. 

Join C-4 Analytics’ Ben Carsley, VP of Content & SEO and Melyssa Cantor, Director of SEO, as they discuss how generative AI is disrupting the very foundations of automotive SEO and what dealers can do to gain a leg up on their competition. They’ll highlight where chat outperforms search today, where it lags behind, and what changes to the…