Lotlinx’s Q1 2026 Vincensus Report finds new vehicle sales are down and inventories are up — along with prices, which climbed by 2% year-over-year and 3% from the prior quarter. +
Autoblog’s Leroy Marion reports on the “full replica” of a Georgia Lexus dealer’s online presence that convinced a would-be customer to pay $77,300 for a nonexistent vehicle. +
Multiple sources report Carvana has acquired Avon Lake (Ohio) Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram from Elliot Schor and Scott Zuckerman, who owned the suburban Cleveland dealership for less than a year. +
Wolters Kluwer’s latest Auto Finance Digital Transformation index finds U.S. econtracting volume declined by 1.5% from Q1 2025 but “significantly” outpaced new vehicle sales. +
Agents in attendance at last week’s Agent Summit witnessed the reveal of Nation Safe Drivers’ OnRamp product lineup and NSD360, a new agent- and dealer-facing learning management system. +
Plans to accept nominations for future F&I Hall of Fame members are already underway following the induction of the Class of 2026 at this week’s Agent Summit. +
A new partnership with Administrative Management Solutions gives F&I Direct the ability to directly administer F&I programs for dealers via the AMS platform. +
A growing approval rate helped the Dealertrack Credit Availability Index improve to 102.4 in March, its highest reading since June 2022 and a 6% year-over-year increase. +
Sales of full-size SUVs and pickups — and a decreased appetite for small cars — pushed the average U.S. new vehicle transaction price to $49,275 in March. +
EasyCoach powered by Siro is a new training platform designed to leverage AI to identify gaps, opportunities and risks to improve insights and performance for groups, dealerships and individuals. +
