Jay Alix Now Takes Credit for GM Bailout

Editor’s Note: Lots of people–including President Obama–have trumpeted their role in the success of the government-backed turnaround plan th...

Transparency and the Retail Auto Business

The new buzz word in the Auto Industry these days is “Transparency.” Auto manufacturers have fallen in  love with the word, as have vendors ...

Did We Dodge a Bullet?

Ruggles, Auto Finance News Or did we just get President Obama’s Second Choice? Now that Larry Summers has taken himself out of the running f...

People LOVE Their Car Dealer, But Hate Yours

Steve Finlay - WARDS June 2013 People carry on a love-hate relationship with car dealers. They typically love their dealer, as evidenced by ...

Outsiders Poised to Buy Car Dealerships

Oct. 15, 2013 Phil Villegas&nbsp Reprinted from WARDS AUTO As the auto industry surges, private-equity firms and others may drive up blu...

Can “Friction” Be Eliminated in the Buying/Selling Equation?

Ruggles in WARDS October 2013 At the recent J. D. Power event held in Las Vegas in October Scott Painter, TrueCar CEO, introduced a new theo...

The Fundamentals of Global Oil Economics

By Gal Luft and Anne Korin The first U.S. energy secretary, James Schlesinger, observed in 1977 that when it comes to energy, the United ...

Data Check: Should you add inventory or build capacity?

One side effect of the government shutdown is a delay in data collection and release. If you're in business, you either track directly d...

The PACE of supplier innovation

GM just announced that it will begin selling a dual gasoline/CNG (compressed natural gas) version of its Impala – the first Chevy in years (...