The Summer 2024 edition of the NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey will be released today (Monday 28 October) at 9am. It is expected to show a general upward trend across most questions, with responses from...

Improvements to the Stellantis brands’ scores in the latest NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey have helped push average retailer-OEM relations to a near high and resulted in one of the biggest half-year...

All eight of the Stellantis brands, including the commercial vehicle operations, will move to agency agreements, but not until “late 2026” at the earliest, according to new UK group managing...

Historically motor dealer groups have always used return on sales as a key metric in their accounts and to gauge how they are trading. Pre-Covid, if you could achieve more than a 2% return on sales,...

Mercedes boss Gary Savage has questioned the latest NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey for its relevancy to the agency model, which the brand adopted in new sales agreements at the start of this year. As...

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Relationships between OEMs and retailers have remained stable over the past six months, according to the latest NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey. The all-important question of how retailers rate their...

Overall relationships between manufacturers and retailers have remained stable over the past six months, according to the latest NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey. However, retailers operating Stellantis...

Relationships between OEMs and retailers have declined slightly as they continue to operate under increasingly difficult situations and demanding environments, with semiconductor shortages and...

Manufacturers moving to agency agreements have been scored down by retailers compared to those sticking with the franchised retail model as they worry about future profitability, according to the...

A big uplift in retailer profitability thanks to demand exceeding supply has seen a marked improvement in the relationships between retailers and their manufacturers, with the results of the latest...

The first half of 2021 has seen a further improvement in the state of relationships between retailers and their manufacturers. The latest NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey has sentiment at a score of 6.5...

An uplift in consumer confidence post-lockdown has resulted in a six-year high for the results of the latest NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey. For the key question ‘How do you rate your manufacturer...

Retailer relations with their manufacturer partners have started 2021 in the best position for six years, according to the latest NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey. The survey, carried out in January,...

The last six months has seen another slight improvement in the relationships between franchised dealers and their OEMs after the rise in sentiment reported six months ago. The latest NFDA Dealer...

Help provided to franchised retailers by their manufacturers during the height of the Covic-19 pandemic has been scored in the latest NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey carried out in August. The new...

The summer 2020 NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey is the first to be conducted entirely online. Unique links are being distributed to retailers now (those who haven’t received them should check their spam...

This week’s new car registration figures were obviously, and significantly, lower than last year’s stats, but within the numbers there were some interesting insights. While the whole market was...

The last six months has seen a slight improvement in the relationships between franchised dealers and their OEMs after the decline in sentiment reported six months ago. The latest NFDA Dealer Attitude...

Satisfaction levels in the latest NFDA Dealer Attitude Survey are at a three-year high in the all-important overall manufacturer rating category. The overall average score of 5.9 out of 10 was a...