Good morning! It’s Thursday, August 15, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
(Bloomberg) — Thousands of car dealerships were ground to a halt during a normally busy holiday Wednesday by a cyber incident at CDK Global, a major software provider for dealers …
Car dealers are terrified of direct sales. They see protecting the franchise sales model as paramount. I mean, how else are they going to charge for crap you don’t need …
Image: David Zalubowski (AP) Junk fees plague industries like hotels and airlines and end up costing consumers billions every year in add ons, “administrative fees” and other overpriced nonsense. The …
The Federal Trade Commission may be excluding car dealerships from its plans to ban junk fees if provisions in a reportedly controversial set of proposed rules targeting dealerships are finalized. …