AGI lands by 2030 — yes, even in your dealership. The car business spent a hundred years hiding behind an information wall and calling it a relationship. AI just knocked it flat. A $20 app now beats a $65,000 salesperson at everything that used to be the job. Which leaves only the thing this industry was always worst at: trust. Here's why that's the best news dealers have had in decades.

Good enough wasn't laziness. It was math. For 30 years, "good enough" was the rational play in automotive — the capital math didn't reward excellence at every touchpoint. But the cost of intelligence just dropped 6,000x in four years, and the customer in your parking lot now has a $20/month alternative to most of what your stack delivers. Which means "good enough" is no longer the safest zone. It's the most exposed. Here's why vendors get squeezed before dealers — and the pat

Google just published its 2026 marketing playbook — 13 pages, three case studies, and one of them is General Motors. Most dealers won't read it. That's a mistake. Buried in this report is a roadmap your store can act on next month: the AI Mode shift, the YouTube reallocation GM just proved, the creative bottleneck breaking, and the measurement framework most dealers still get wrong.

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