NADA has elected Sandy Fitzgerald Angello as chairman for twenty twenty seven, the first woman in the role since two thousand eight. Auto Remarketing and NADA dot org both carry the handover, with Jeff Weber named vice chairman. Elsewhere, The Drive details GM's plan to run its future on one central computer and an AI-rebuilt OnStar, while Automotive Dive has Super Cruise revenue up sixty percent. CBT News returns to hidden dealer fees and to negative equity past twenty nine percent of trade-ins. Buy-sell keeps moving in California, Wisconsin and Manchester, Motor Trader and Auto Remarketing note, and Unifor members at Stellantis Canada have voted to authorize a strike. Links to everything referenced in this episode: goautonomi.com/naomi

A city consumer agency has decided a marketplace's price badge counts as an advertising claim. That puts dealer fee structures into the evidence file of a lawsuit they are not even named in. CBT News and Yahoo Finance cover New York's suit against CarGurus over its "Great Deal" ratings, built around a Honda listing. The Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association has the date for the federal fuel economy rollback, Automotive Dive has Volkswagen's widened ID.4 recall, and Automotive News Canada has Unifor's strike vote against Stellantis. Smaller items on buy-sell, auction and vendor moves round out the wire. None of it changes what is due on a dealer's own listings this week. Links to everything referenced in this episode: goautonomi.com/naomi

Larry Cloninger is out, Capital Automotive Group is in, and seven locations across two states now answer to new ownership. CBT News and Auto Remarketing both file group-sale stories the same day, one in the Carolinas, one running from North Carolina to Nebraska. Elsewhere on the wire: Lincoln's dealer count keeps shrinking toward a number Ford already set for twenty twenty-seven, AutoNation adds two outside executives to its board, and a Toyota store's decade-long zombie ad campaign finally wraps, per Automotive News. The FTC's personalized pricing proposal gets a fresh look from Digital Dealer. Stellantis workers move a step closer to a strike, and Volvo's answer to the Tesla Model Y hits a delay on its way to US buyers. Links to everything referenced in this episode: goautonomi.com/naomi