In a month that saw more than 10,000 workers laid off from Internet firms, a new player emerged in the increasingly crowded online parts ordering market: The Big Three. Less than a year after DaimlerChrysler AG, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors...
Wes Lutz is going to extremes. It's not as radical as it sounds. But what the Jackson, MI dealer is doing is pretty wild in a lot of respects advertising and otherwise. The name of his five-year-old store is Extreme Dodge. Not a typical name for a...
Focus on core competencies. Let the dealers be dealers, and let the factories be factories. REMEMBER A FEW YEARS BACK WHEN FRANCHISED dealers seemed like an endangered species? Some seers predicted that Internet car-buying services would turn...