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AI ignites the showroom: How Intelligent Tech is shaping the Future of Car Dealerships

AI is revolutionizing car dealerships by transforming customer experience, sales, and operations, and these changes are exceptionally relevant for dealership brokers like GW Marketing Services, who focus on maximizing dealership performance and value.

Driving Vermont Forward: GW Marketing’s Decades of Support Shine at This Year’s Auto Conference

Discover key highlights from the 2025 Vermont Auto Conference. Gain expert insights on local dealership trends, challenges, and GW Marketing’s enduring industry leadership

Is Hydrogen Diesel engines the future?

 

"The idea of blending hydrogen and diesel together in an existing engine is something of a Holy Grail for carbonizing heavy industry and mining," adds Tim Buckley.

 

Competition Heating up in EV Market

Worldwide there are approximately 60 million electric vehicles on the road. As EV adoption inevitably grows, we will see that number increase, as we are seeing more and more players in the EV market.

"Alien" Brokers Failing New England Dealers

Alien brokers have been invading the Northeast and especially New England, attempting to abduct our local dealers under false pretenses!!

Consolidation Growing in the Auto Industry

We’ve been saying it for years, but now in the Northeast consolidation is happening. One day we may even see the end of “mom & pop” owned stores, maybe even in the next 5 years not long after we experience “normalized” dealership operations post COVID and Microchip shortage.

The Microchip Shortage is Good for Dealers

Experts now predict that microchip supply issues will likely continue into 2024, which is no surprise here. When the microchip industry forecasted that microchip availability would be normalized by the end of 2022, we laughed. Impossible.

The New Push for Agency Sales will Ruin Dealers

online agency car sales

What we’ve all worried and debated about for essentially the last five years is definitely  being forced upon the dealers by the OEMs.

Q1 Sales Trends & 2022 Predictions

Q1 2022 Sales Trends

The past few years have brought a lot of surprises for the automotive industry. While many predicted 2022 would be the year of healing and finding “normal,” Q1 has proven otherwise, and we had been hoping for something that looks “normal” by the end of 2023. This is now looking more doubtful as we continue through 2022.

 

So what are the trends we’re seeing that are impacting sales?

 

Some things haven’t changed.

 

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