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Monday Signal Brief: Week of July 13, 2026
A DARPI-led read for the whole floor. Our retail index shows used pulling below wholesale and demand softening, the economic dials point to a soft second half, and buyers are stretched on the monthly while driving the oldest fleet on record. What it means for sales, F&I, and service.
Monday Signal Brief: Week of July 6, 2026
Affordability is showing up as a demand problem before a price problem. DARPI has retail asking prices holding while volume softens for a second straight week.
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.
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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A Kansas City race car driver accidentally handed the FTC its most powerful tool against car dealers. A 112-year-old law, a unanimous Supreme Court ruling, 86,000 consumer complaints, and 97 warning letters. Here is the full story.
Signal Intel · June 2, 2026
Loan terms stretch to 35.55%. Payment wall hits 1 in 5 buyers. Used prices up $870 in a month. 419K Jeep recall hits service lanes June 11. Credit splits into two markets.
DGActual FY 2026 SAAR Forecast
Total SAAR 16.1M, retail SAAR 14.8M in May. Our model projects Q3 base at 15.9M total / 14.2M retail as pull-forward fades and sentiment sits at 49.8. Adverse scenario: 14.4M total / 12.7M retail.
Week in Signals: April 21-27, 2026; Your 3 minute Intel Brief
Consumer confidence hit a 74-year low. Price pressures re-accelerated. Delinquency got more nuanced. And wholesale crept slightly positive anyway. Here is what actually happened, translated for the lot.
Week in Signals: April 14-19, 2026 — What Moved and What to Watch
CPI shock, consumer confidence at a record low, wholesale splitting by segment, and a heavy data week ahead including FOMC, Retail Sales, and the Michigan final. Five signals recapped, four to watch.