Hey there. Welcome to the WardsAuto Dealer 5 for Wednesday, April 26. We've put together items from WardsAuto.com and across the Internet. So let's go:
More driving means customers wear out their cars faster and have more collisions, and therefore need more body work. Many customers also are coming in for service work they postponed earlier in the pandemic, Lithia Motors executive Chris Holzshu says.
The Lincoln Star concept large CUV/wagon should be seen as a preview of the automaker’s new exterior-form vocabulary for electric vehicles and some of the ways Lincoln might take advantage of the flexibility of EV architectures.
Wayne Harrison says the rise in vehicle prices has affected his business, which focuses on older vehicles at a lower cost, making it more difficult to sell cars to customers on a tight budget, the Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram reports.
automotiveMastermind, which provides car dealers with predicative analytics and marketing automation solutions, has expanded its industry education efforts, Auto Remarketing reports.
That’s our WardsAuto Dealer 5 for today. We’ll be back soon with more high fives. And to reach the editor for whatever reason (i.e. comments, complaints, questions, directions), contact Jim Irwin at jimirwin@wardsauto.com . OK, finally... Forward this alert to dealership colleagues. The more in-the-know people at your place, the better it is. Over and out. Now for the legal stuff...
