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The "Car Mom" Manufacturers Tried to Blacklist My conversation with Kelley Stumpe, Founder & CEO at The Car Mom: 0:20 Why Dealers Don't Take Families Seriously. 1:45 Cup Holders Matter More Than Horsepower. 4:00 The Most Car Seat-Friendly SUV. 6:30 Selling To Women Isn't Different. 9:30 The Seven-Door Car Parents Want. 11:30 Salespeople Know Nothing About Cars. 13:45 The EV Concern Every Mom Has. 17:30 How To Market To Moms. 20:30 The Free Event That Drives Business. 27:10 Why Kelley Stays Undisputed. 36:00 The New Website Every Mom Will Use. 41:15 The 100,000-Mile Secret.

@Ericgolden @nikitabier It sure does

Feel bad for all the people that left X and said it was dead New algo feels like a reunion party with old friends Thank you @nikitabier

@IAmClintMurphy Clint !!!

@GuyDealership Wow, it feels like 2023 again. May be time to start typing.

Testing if X is better today like everyone is saying… who sees this?

@LumberTrading Love. Yum

How to build a $10B company: Build a 7-door car. 3 doors per side. 1 trunk. Congratulations, you’ve cornered the family market.

@J_Kreutzbender Jeremy !!

@GuyDealership You are back

➤ Stream the latest episode of the Car Dealership Guy Podcast now on your favorite platform—brought to you by @DigitalDealer, @PodiumHQ, and CDG Platform Youtube: carguymedia.com/44tfhAe Apple Podcasts: carguymedia.com/3SXCmZf Spotify: carguymedia.com/4hcmBre

Staying unbiased in automotive media often comes with challenges. Kelly Stumpe, CEO and Founder at The Car Mom, explains why relying on manufacturers for vehicle access can complicate honest reviews.

NEWS | Consistency is leading MileOne to top of service scheduling effectiveness study: Pied Piper ranked the 31 largest dealer groups on how easy it is for customers to book a service appointment by phone or online. MileOne scored 80 out of 100. Group 1 Automotive came in at 79. Most groups scored well below 75. But the real headline is who outperformed dealers entirely: Midas, Pep Boys, Firestone, and Meineke all beat the industry average on call quality, scheduling success, and speed to reach an advisor. And AI is not the differentiator. Several top-five performers use no AI at all, while roughly 1 in 3 AI-to-human transfers ended in voicemail, a disconnect, or a hold. What this means for dealers: Customers shopping service are one bad phone call away from Pep Boys permanently. And the groups winning this study obsess over process consistency, not technology shortcuts. Read today's top automotive stories, presented by @PodiumHQ : carguymedia.com/4fiS0WE (Source: Pied Piper)

Recon speed is becoming a used-car inventory advantage. John Murphy, Used Vehicle Director at Holler-Classic Automotive, explains how centralized planning is helping stores move the right cars to the frontline faster. "If this playbook... isn't evolving and changing as the market is and the consumer is, you're doing it wrong." Daily Dealer live hosted by @samdarc — listen to the full episode here: dealershipguy.com/spradlin-on-us… - Thank you to our partner The Presidio Group! Check them out by visiting: thepresidiogroup.com

NEWS | Dodge is bringing back ‘power dollars’ as gas-powered charger sales surge: Dodge is relaunching its Power Dollars incentive: $10 cash for every horsepower on new 2026 SIXPACK Charger models. That means up to $4,200 on the R/T and $5,500 on the Scat Pack. Gas-powered Charger sales are up 181% in the first half of 2026. Second-quarter sales jumped 404%. But Charger Daytona EV sales fell 88% over the same period, down to 294 units in Q2. What this means for dealers: Power Dollars gives your team a concrete, easy-to-communicate reason to bring performance buyers in now. Read today's top automotive stories, presented by @PodiumHQ : carguymedia.com/4wL5zVW (Source: Carscoops / Dodge press statement)

@SavageSausageXY 🤝

@GuyDealership Literally the stupidest thing I read today on X.

@SeanODowd15 🙏🙏

@GuyDealership Amazing to hear from you!! I haven’t seen your posts in so long, excited to catch back up!

Twitter is fun again!

@BillDA So back

Ok the timeline / algo is definitely better I’m seeing friends faces I haven’t seen in months, and much less engagement slop Are we back??

@JamesonRiley Selling outside PMA

@GuyDealership How is that possible? How did they get so many cars to one store to sell from? Are we sure they aren’t just reporting sales from all of their stores to one store to make the news?

Carvana is a legitimate contender in the new-car business 998 new vehicles sold in a single month from one store This is no longer an experiment

Watch it on X, or stream it on your favorite platform: Youtube: carguymedia.com/44tfhAe Apple Podcasts: carguymedia.com/3SXCmZf Spotify: carguymedia.com/4hcmBre

The "Car Mom" Manufacturers Tried to Blacklist My conversation with Kelley Stumpe, Founder & CEO at The Car Mom: 0:20 Why Dealers Don't Take Families Seriously. 1:45 Cup Holders Matter More Than Horsepower. 4:00 The Most Car Seat-Friendly SUV. 6:30 Selling To Women Isn't Different. 9:30 The Seven-Door Car Parents Want. 11:30 Salespeople Know Nothing About Cars. 13:45 The EV Concern Every Mom Has. 17:30 How To Market To Moms. 20:30 The Free Event That Drives Business. 27:10 Why Kelley Stays Undisputed. 36:00 The New Website Every Mom Will Use. 41:15 The 100,000-Mile Secret.

@nikitabier Makes me want to tweet hot takes again

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@nikitabier Great job

Stellantis North America shipments jumped 38% YoY in Q2, adding roughly 122K units. To put that in perspective: Global shipments were only up 10%, meaning North America is doing some heavy lifting. Pretty notable turnaround considering where Stellantis was not that long ago. High prices, bloated inventory, frustrated dealers, sliding sales... The company says the gains came from new and refreshed products, including the return of the Ram HEMI V8, the TRX, updated Jeep SUVs, the refreshed Pacifica, plus the continued ramp-up of the new Cherokee and Charger SIXPACK. More curious how dealers are actually feeling right now. Encouraged? Still cautious? Waiting to see if it holds? (Source: Stellantis)