A single axle plant in Michigan can threaten GM pickup production, while Washington, AI marketing platforms, and service-lane scanners are rewriting what happens after the vehicle reaches the lot.

Today’s episode breaks down the roughly 1,000-worker axle strike, the FTC’s warning list naming 97 dealerships across about 85 organizations, Cox and FullPath’s 2.3-billion-interaction data engine, Gen Z’s service expectations, and UVI’s Scan to Sold tool that claims to cut time-to-market by nine days.

Today's Key Headlines

~A roughly 1,000-worker axle strike threatens GM pickup production

~GM may have only about two weeks of inventory buffer before assembly lines run dry

~The FTC names 97 dealerships across roughly 85 organizations in a pricing crackdown

~Cox and FullPath connect dealer CRM data with 2.3 billion a ...