Dealer News Today
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A collaboration between the Dave Cantin Group and Cox Automotive, Dealer News Today creates content and information for dealers in the automotive industry. The information they need today and insights for tomorrow. Our content is exclusive and our podcasts feature automotive industry powerhouses from around the globe giving master-class advice to dealerships.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Trade interviews turn dealership trends into practical lessons about operations, fraud prevention, customer experience, electrification and changing vehicle markets.
Dealer News Today Podcasts treats the dealership as a business system, then asks the people running or advising parts of it to explain how the pieces work. Derek D.
That showroom printer is testing your patience; Derek D. asks what the customer experience should look like.
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A grounded look at how RV companies are recalibrating after the COVID sales surge.
Dealer News Today frames a practical RV-market reset through Mike Lanciotti, Rev Group Recreation Division President, as he describes the move from the COVID-era surge to steadier demand.
Mike Tyson connects confidence, winning, and fame to the harder truth that every spotlight fades.
Mike Tyson's interview turns confidence, stage nerves, addiction, and winning into a conversation about perspective. Larry Balin gives Tyson space to describe nerves as energy and to weigh whether winning can become its own kind of addiction.
A clear, practical look at vehicle camera technology and the supplier relationships behind it.
Smarter AI's automotive focus comes through in a practical conversation about aftermarket cameras, OEMs, and the work of bringing advanced systems into vehicles.
A grounded look at how digital car buying may change dealerships while keeping the human step in view.
Automotive retail's digital shift gets a practical reality check through Karen Lelouch's view of how buyers now move between online research, test drives, digital follow-up, and in-person sales advice.
A clear, grounded look at autonomous driving's safety progress, business challenge, and mobility promise.
Autonomous driving comes through as a practical lesson in the gap between tidy forecasts and messy streets. The episode follows the guest, a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and co-founder of the McKinsey Center for Future Mobilities, as he revisits the early belief that…
A practical dealer conversation about wages, chips, and balanced inventory.
Dealer News Today stays on the pressure points of dealership life, with Brett Hopkins talking through wages, turnover, supply and demand, and the chip shortage in plain terms.
A clear look at rare motorcycles, handmade production, and overseas shipping.
Jay Etheridge gives Combat Motors a practical, close-up treatment. The episode sticks to how the brand works: low-run production, dealership-level choices that keep the bikes from becoming custom one-offs, and the fact that each machine is handmade by Jason Reddick with about…
A clear look at how higher rates are reshaping auto-buying behavior.
The episode keeps its focus on a familiar auto-lending pressure point: what happens to buying power when rates stay elevated after COVID and affordability tightens.
Manufacturing signals, translated into business consequences.
Machine shops, ownership, and industrial purpose.
Dealer News Today features Matthew Phillips, CEO of Car Pros Automotive Group, and his account of growing up in his father’s business, which started with used-car lots and later added a Hyundai store in Lacey and a Kia store in Tacoma.
Dealer News Today speaks with Dr.
Dealer News Today brings on Mike Ferrer, principal at Hickey and Associates, to break down the business side of electrification for dealerships.
Dealer News Today opens season six with Bob Welby, Infiniti's senior director of sales, marketing, product, and consumer operations, and he brings about 30 years in the auto world with him.
Dealer News Today interviews Frank McKenna, co-founder and chief fraud strategist at Point Predictive, about why auto-lending fraud is surging.
Service capability is more important than the sale
Marketing author Larry Balin interviews Mike Tyson about personal transformation and resilience.
Host Derek D interviews Tyler Corder, CFO and COO of Finley Auto Group, about dealership operations post-COVID, including supply chain management, interest rate impacts, and EV infrastructure challenges.
Derek D welcomes Ryan Robinson, Deloitte’s automotive research leader, starts with the show’s usual intro, then moves into autonomy, labor, and what changing technology could mean for workers like truck drivers.
Dealer News Today sits down with Paul Mumma and Dave Canton to talk through a market outlook report built by the Dave Canton Group and Kaiser Associates for automotive executives.
Jeff Turley, president and head of auto lending at PNC, says the bank can receive applications from 6,000 dealers a day and decide about 80% in 30 to 40 seconds.
Derek D opens with a warm welcome and quickly moves from show housekeeping to electric mobility.
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Dealer News Today hosts Derek D.
Dealer News Today with host Derek D features Daniel Shapiro, Vice President of Automotive at NVIDIA, explaining how cars are turning into software-defined computers.
Dealer News Today sits down with Brett Hopkins, CEO of Ken Garff Automotive Group, for a grounded conversation about the auto retail market.
Liza returns to Dealer News Today for another dealership conversation.
Pedro Correa, head of Automotive and Mobility at Bain & Company, says 2022 was “a great year” for OEMs and dealers, with dealer margins almost doubling over the last two years.
Dealer News Today brings Jay Etheridge, brand ambassador for Combat Motors, into a conversation about a motorcycle company that started in 1991 as Confederate Motorcycles and now operates from Hurricane, Utah.
Dealer News Today focuses on succession planning for automotive dealerships, with host Derek D.
Karen Lellouche Tordjman, Managing Director and Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group, says U.S.
Chris Piche, founder and CEO of Smarter AI, traces his path from computer science and audio-video work at AT&T, DirecTV, and BlackBerry to building AI camera software.
Dealer News Today marks season seven with Derek D hosting Grant Cardone and Dave Canton, and the opening immediately turns into a direct argument about sales, discipline, and change in the automotive industry.
Derek D speaks with Eddie Hall III, the owner of Royal Oak Ford and COO of Hall Automotive Group, about running four dealerships across greater Metro Detroit.
Dealer News Today brings K.C.