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Jim Ziegler brings you the fearless commentary, actionable insights, and accurate forecasts you need to compete as a dealership owner, GM, or manager.
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Ziegler believes the decline of General Motors’ luxury division could have been prevented and might not be inescapable. But bringing Cadillac back from the dead would require a complete overhaul — and not just for the cars.
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Ziegler sees no point in debating Wall Street analysts and investors who continue to pour money into Carvana despite the company’s unsustainable business model and the federal crimes committed by two of its biggest players.
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Ziegler sounds the alarm over factory co-op programs that overpromise and underdeliver, limit dealer choice and vendor competition, and create the risk of a massive theft of valuable — and supposedly private — customer data.
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Ziegler takes aim at subscription programs and wonders how corruption in Nissan’s management ranks — from unreported income to multimillion-dollar cash incentives — could stay hidden in plain sight for so long.
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The Alpha Dawg charts the brief rise and long fall of Johan de Nysschen, the recently departed president of Cadillac and author of the business plan that effectively crowned Lincoln as the new king of American luxury.
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Ziegler believes Uber’s directors should face criminal charges for their role in an Arizona woman’s violent death.
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