All ASOTU Articles

USO Barbecue Bonanza

USO Barbecue Bonanza

Is there anything better than helping people? Yes, actually, helping people while eating grilled food. 🌭🍔🍗

Heatwaves are the Wurst

Heatwaves are the Wurst

If the US adopted this practice, we could call our siestas “American Dreams”.

Sneaky SUV, Big Little Factory, Battery Break, and Popularity Contest

Sneaky SUV, Big Little Factory, Battery Break, and Popularity Contest

Dodge dusts off the Stealth, Rivian's new GA factory gets the green light, GM powers down its CAMI EV plant, and Kia's electric SUV is in high demand.

Used EV Prices Plummet

Used EV Prices Plummet

Come on, Used EV Market. If Tesla jumped off a bridge, would you jump off too? No, seriously tho. We’ve seen Full Self-Drive news, and this is an important question.

West Herr Knows How To Picnic

West Herr Knows How To Picnic

Some kids went home that day thinking their parent works at an amusement park and never told them.

Leading Credit and Automotive Compliance Technology Company, Informativ, Partners with AutoFi to Streamline Compliance Checks

Leading Credit and Automotive Compliance Technology Company, Informativ, Partners with AutoFi to Streamline Compliance Checks

Informativ is excited to announce an exclusive integration of its Dealer Safeguard compliance platform with AutoFi’s digital retailing solution.

Ford Gets Literal

Ford Gets Literal

Ford’s new Bronco patent is perfect for giving a tour of Jurassic Park, LARPing a commander in a tank cupola, and/or head injuries. 🤕

Robots, Pizza, and Rally Cars

Robots, Pizza, and Rally Cars

OEM news at lightning speed.

Weekly Economic Update

Weekly Economic Update

The economy may have slowed, but sentiment increased along with gas prices reentering the atmosphere. Most people seem less concerned with what Wall Street is feeling and more focused on making good choices for their families, so each piece of consumer-favoring news brings buyers back into the market. How tidy are your leads? ☎️

Patriot Subaru’s Forest

Patriot Subaru’s Forest

Hey, 250K trees in one place would be called a forest. Just because the Patriot team’s trees are scattered around doesn’t make it less of a forest to us.

Killer Kicks

Killer Kicks

Keep your style fresh with ASOTU. 😎

Site Sleuthing

Site Sleuthing

Have you mystery shopped your website lately?

ATUC Talks Tech

ATUC Talks Tech

Pro tip – Get input from the teenagers and young adults you have in your circle. They live and breathe technology.

Adrian Wall Gibbs Gets Hyperlocal

Adrian Wall Gibbs Gets Hyperlocal

This week, Chris and Kristi had the pleasure of chatting with Adrian about her role as the Marketing Director for the Nimnicht Family of Dealerships in Jacksonville, FL. She’s really connected with the team and their values, even though it may not be where she imagined she’d end up post-pandemic.

That’s a Whole Lotta Boat

That’s a Whole Lotta Boat

We give it one year before a spoof of this ship plays the setting for a horror movie. Think Snowpiercer + Jaws with some kinda, like, mermaid zombies? Maybe we’ll leave the specifics to the experts. 🚢🦈🧜‍♀️🧟‍♀️

Motor Morsels: Canoo, Lucid, Chevy

Motor Morsels: Canoo, Lucid, Chevy

Canoo is struggling to stay afloat, Lucid's dreams are cut short, and the Chevy Blazer production is firing up.

ASOTU CON Speaker Announcement

ASOTU CON Speaker Announcement

ASOTU CON breaking news!

Harvesting Hope

Harvesting Hope

11,000,000 meals is hard to conceptualize. Instead, imagine enough food to satisfy one person three times a day for 10,045 years. Much easier.

Colorful Cruisers

Colorful Cruisers

Stand out with these pigmented pretties.

Motor Morsels: Audi, Detroit, Used EVs

Motor Morsels: Audi, Detroit, Used EVs

Audi in talks to acquire SAIC's EV platform, UAW talks worker negotiations, and EV prices are dropping.

Diving Into Digital Retail

Diving Into Digital Retail

Did you catch the Webinar live? Let us know your favorite takeaways!

Cars and Farms

Cars and Farms

From the rooster's morning crowing to the barn owl's evening hoot, farm life ain't easy.

Motor Morsels: Rivian, GM, Geely/Renault, Toyota, Tesla

Motor Morsels: Rivian, GM, Geely/Renault, Toyota, Tesla

Rivian is opening a showroom, GM is inching closer to affordable, Geely and Renault are partnering for ICE vehicles, Toyota is going hydrogen in the EU and China, and Tesla’s showing off robots.

Charging Changes

Charging Changes

It’s taken over 100 years to get us to today’s modern gas pumps, so perfecting EV chargers may be a while...

Wisconsin Dealers Go To Camp

Wisconsin Dealers Go To Camp

All kids come back from camp with stories, but some kids come back from camp and rotate the tires on the family van.