How Dealers Can Manage Rate Risk in 2026 and 2027
Auto Dealers Managing Rate Risk
Use scenario planning, hedging, and debt targets to stay ready for rate swings.
Fed uncertainty, inflation pressure, and higher-for-longer borrowing costs make planning essential for dealership balance sheets.
NADA Vice Chair Sandy Fitzgerald-Angello’s Leadership Playbook
Auto Dealers Lessons in leadership from NADA’s Vice Chair
Five decades in automotive retail shaped a leadership framework built on trust, execution, and adaptability.
From operator to NADA Vice Chair, Sandy Fitzgerald-Angello outlines the seven principles that define resilient, high-performing leaders.
How the OBBB Affects Tax Strategy for Auto Dealerships
Auto Dealers OBBB Tax Changes Every Dealer Must Know
Key tax shifts affecting auto retailers—from QBI and R&D to bonus depreciation and estate planning.
Discover how the OBBB impacts bonus depreciation, floorplan interest deductions, towables, QBI strategies, estate planning, and buy-sell outcomes for auto dealers.
Expert strategies to strengthen cybersecurity for dealerships
Industry expertise After CDK: What auto retailers must know about cybersecurity
Experts share how auto retailers can strengthen defenses, avoid costly breaches, and protect customer data.
Experts outline key steps auto dealers must take to strengthen cybersecurity and protect against future threats.
Auto Dealers Stress-test Plans With Modeling
Auto Dealers Scenario planning prepares dealers for uncertainty
Dealerships face uncertainty—financial modeling and expert planning can prepare you for what’s ahead.
Discover how scenario planning helps auto dealers manage uncertainty, optimize capital, and respond quickly to market changes.
Dealership Design and Construction
Auto Dealers Building tomorrow’s dealerships
Facility upgrades face extended timelines—these four strategies keep dealership projects moving.
Extended timelines are the norm for facility projects facing regulatory, permitting and OEM approval hurdles. Four smart strategies can keep a project on track.
Boost Your Dealership’s Warranty Reimbursements
Auto Dealers Maximize your dealership’s warranty service reimbursements
Employ these best practices to optimize reimbursed service revenue.
Maximize profits with 6 best practices to improve warranty reimbursement pricing and processing for your dealership's service department.
Payments Power Digital Transformation In Auto Retail
Auto Dealers How payments are powering digital transformation in auto retail
Simpler, speedier, and safer payments reshape the customer experience from purchase to service delivery.
Digital tools that deliver simpler, speedier, and safer payments can transform the customer buying experience, reduce operating costs, and lower risk of fraud.
Plan now for a smooth business transition later
Auto Dealers Plan now for a smooth business transition later
Learn strategies to avoid 7 common pitfalls when preparing for dealership transition.
Preparing for business transition can help dealerships get ahead of issues when it’s time to exit. Learn strategies to avoid pitfalls when transitioning.
Protect your dealership from fraud and cyber threats
Auto Dealers Protect your dealership from fraud and cyber threats
Learn about the latest cyberthreats, how to defend against fraud, and what to do if you’re attacked.
Fraud is on the rise and auto dealers are often targets. Understand the latest threats, set measures to prevent a cyber-attack, and have a response plan ready.
Capital Options for Funding Dealership Acquisitions
Auto Dealers Expanded capital options fuel dealership growth
Learn how loan syndications and high-yield debt can provide the capital dealer groups need to fund large-scale growth initiatives.
As the capital needs to support acquisition strategies grow, loan syndications and high-yield debt can provide the flexibility and funding auto retailers need.
How AI is transforming the auto dealership business
Auto Dealers AI transforms the auto dealership business
Learn about the groundbreaking impact that AI can have on the way you do business.
Dealerships are looking for ways to enjoy the benefits of AI. Truist talks to one of the industry’s leaders in using AI to transform the customer experience.
Dealers renew focus on F&I profit participation strategies
Auto Dealers Dealers renew focus on F&I profit participation strategies
Learn what steps auto dealers can take to find the F&I profit program that best meets their goals.
Auto dealers often overlook the wealth creation possibilities that F&I programs offer. Learn how to find an F&I profit participation program to meet your goals.
Planning for dealership succession
Auto Dealers Planning for dealership succession
Dealership succession planning combines the complexities of maximizing business value with managing family dynamics as owners prepare for a smooth transition that keeps the family and business strong.
Dealership succession planning combines the complexities of maximizing business value with managing family dynamics as owners prepare for a smooth transition that keeps the family and business strong.
