Right to Repair Is Coming. Here Is What It Actually Means for Your Service Lane.
The REPAIR Act passed committee 48-1. The telematics fight is unresolved. Massachusetts already won in court. Here is the full picture and what it means for your fixed ops revenue.
Monday Signal Brief: Week of June 30, 2026
Payment wall at $813. Tariff floor defined. Hybrid prices at all-time highs. SAAR year-end call: 15.85M. Plus 3 open recalls your service lane should run this week.
Nobody Trusts Yelp. Nobody Can Quite Ignore It Either.
Franchise dealers have been right to distrust Yelp for two decades. What they have not reckoned with is what the platform has become in its decline, and where that leaves their rating on a Sunday morning when a customer is trying to find their lot.
Monday Signal Brief — June 23, 2026
The Fed isn't cutting. Credit stress is moving earlier. CarMax's finance arm just became the largest Tier 2 lender. Recalls, inventory, and one jobs number worth a callback. All of it in plain language.
Monday Morning Signal Brief — June 16, 2026
Used EV prices are moving. Everyone is blaming gas. The data says something else. Plus May SAAR, our Q3 model projection, and 1M Jeeps with a park-outside warning.
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Monday Morning Signal Brief — June 9, 2026
EV wholesale up 11.9% YoY. May payments at $748 with $3,297 in incentives doing the carrying. Recall radar. Dealer hours and Google scoreboard coming. DARPI launches.
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