Pub. 12 2023-2024 Issue 1

In recent years, the U.S. auto retail sector has seen a growing number of foreign firms and individuals seeking to acquire dealerships here. Meanwhile, U.S. dealership groups are also starting to look across the border for acquisitions. In 2022, firms from Mexico, Canada, Vietnam and Finland, among others, were involved in several California dealership acquisition […]

You walk into the shop early in the morning and see a mega oil spill. Material loss and cleanup can cost a big bundle, not to mention the shop shutdown time while the cleanup crew vacuums the shop floor, slurries the lot and undertakes the cleanup of the storm sewer. Regulators are breathing down your

Dear Dealer Members, With this issue of the San Diego Dealer magazine, we pay tribute to the “Dean of Dealers” as we wish Dean Manfield well in his retirement after 34 years at the helm of the New Car Dealers Association San Diego County. Dean arrived in San Diego from Montana in 1989 to an