Those of you who have followed my speeches, blogs, social media posts, and articles over the last 25 years know there are two things I really enjoy: The first is crowing about predictions I’ve made when the rest of the industry was going the other way. The second is manufacturers and vendors out for making stupid decisions.
In this issue, I get to do both.
Told You So
Last year, I wrote an article called “Bound to Fail” for the May 2018 issue of F&I and Showroom. To summarize, I said subscription car programs were going to die a miserable death. The main reason? Math.
The manufacturers have all made the same moronic miscalculation to chase those mythological millennials. They even convinced numerous dealerships to push their chips in. Jeff Wyler Dealerships in Cincinnati made a major commitment to make subscriptions work, as did the multistate Germain Automotive Group.
Read the whole article here on AutoDealerMonthly.
