Auto Collabs

Send us Fan Mail At the NY Auto Forum, Senator Bernie Moreno lays out a blunt, high-stakes reality facing the U.S. auto industry. With China’s massive overcapacity, government-backed subsidies, and global expansion strategy, the threat isn’t theoretica...

Send us Fan Mail At the NY Auto Forum, Force Marketing CEO John Fitzpatrick breaks down the real forces shaping automotive retail right now—from tariffs and policy shifts to EV adoption and affordability pressures. With insights tied directly to Senato...

Send us Fan Mail At the NY Auto Forum, John Bozzella, CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, breaks down one of the most critical moments facing the global auto industry. With rising geopolitical tension, China’s growing dominance, and shifting...

Send us Fan Mail This episode was originally released on April 24, 2025. In 2025, we joined up with Erroll Bomar III to bring the world the Unscripted podcast, live from the ASOTU CON floor. This was our first long-form conversation with him and the Mo...

Send us Fan Mail A candid, hosts-only conversation about the mindset shift quietly transforming the automotive industry from the inside out. Somewhere between a conversation and a checkpoint, Paul J Daly, Kyle Mountsier, and Michael Cirillo zoom out on...

Send us Fan Mail Behind every dealership is an unseen battle over regulation, competition, and control—and the next few years may decide who really owns the future of the automotive industry. Ted Smith has spent his career in the engine room of the aut...

Send us Fan Mail If service drives sales, why are dealers letting their best customers slip through the cracks? Shane Wilson, President of Connected Dealer Services, joins Auto Collabs with a bold claim: dealers don’t have a pricing problem in service—...

Send us Fan Mail Third-gen dealer leader Emily Marlow Beck breaks down why humility is a competitive advantage, how to become “essential” to customers, and how to lead through AI-era uncertainty without losing your heart. Emily Marlow Beck didn’t expec...

Send us Fan Mail This episode originally released on April 4, 2024. Will Guidara has never told this story before. He’s now world-famous, a New York Times bestseller, and has appeared on talk shows, stages and podcasts. But this is the first time he sh...

Send us Fan Mail Bob George breaks down why AI won’t save automotive retail—unless the data underneath it is rock solid. Before Dealer.com became a household name in automotive tech, Bob George was employee number ~80, learning in real time how to scal...

Send us Fan Mail Managing 76 dealerships and 11% of Toyota’s U.S. sales isn’t about control—it’s about trust, care, and showing up better every day. Marcus Williams oversees Toyota’s Los Angeles Region—76 dealerships across Southern California represen...

Send us Fan Mail Live from the Washington, DC Auto Show at Public Policy Day 2026, Paul J Daly and Kyle Mountsier sit down with Brian Skalovsky, Director of Battery Recycling at Cox Automotive, to unpack one of the least understood—but most critical—pa...

Send us Fan Mail Live from the Washington, DC Auto Show at Public Policy Day 2026, Paul J Daly and Kyle Mountsier sit down with Alex Kwanten, Managing Editor of U.S. News Autos, to unpack what “affordable” really means in today’s car market. Fresh off ...

Send us Fan Mail Live from the Washington, DC Auto Show at Public Policy Day 2026, Paul J Daly and Kyle Mountsier sit down with Erin Keating, Executive Analyst at Cox Automotive, to challenge one of the most repeated headlines in the industry: the $50,...

Send us Fan Mail Live from the Washington, DC Auto Show at Public Policy Day 2026, Kyle Mountsier and Paul J Daly sit down with Drew Ferguson, Head of the Office of Policy and Government Affairs at Hyundai Motor Group, to unpack how automakers navigate...

Send us Fan Mail As auto loans stretch longer and negative equity piles up, one former prosecutor explains why transparency—not pressure—might be the most profitable move dealers can make. Robert Steenbergh didn’t come up through the showroom—he came f...

Send us Fan Mail Live from the Washington, DC Auto Show at Public Policy Day 2026, Paul J Daly sits down with John Bozzella, CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, to unpack the rapidly shifting landscape of U.S. auto policy. With fuel economy ...

Send us Fan Mail Live from the Washington, DC Auto Show during Public Policy Day 2026, Paul J Daly and Kyle Mountsier sit down with Will Bright of SafeRide AI to unpack what autonomy really means—and what consumers actually want from it. After experien...

Send us Fan Mail At Public Policy Day 2026, Kyle Mountsier and Paul J Daly sit down with Jamie Darvish, owner of Darcars, to unpack the growing affordability crisis facing the automotive industry. With the average new car price now hovering around $50,...

Send us Fan Mail Behind every car is a chain of decisions — made by lawmakers, regulators, and executives long before the vehicle hits the road. Joe Koch from the Washington D.C. Auto Show joins us to unpack how politics, pricing, and technology collid...

Send us Fan Mail Jay Ku says the next wave of AI in automotive won’t win by automating people out—it’ll win by making average teams deliver a top-tier human experience every single time. Jay’s path into automotive is the kind you don’t storyboard—he le...

Send us Fan Mail Since we'll be at Public Policy Day on January 21, we're releasing one of the best conversations we had at last year's event. In this episode, we sit down with Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio, a former car dealer turned policymaker, to d...

Send us Fan Mail New episodes release Thursday. This episode was originally released in August 2023, when we had the opportunity to interview the one and only Jesse Cole. Just imagine having a dream so powerful that you'd risk everything, even mortgage...

Send us Fan Mail New episodes every Thursday! This episode was originally released in July 2022. Today we're throwing back to the very first episode of Auto Collabs, where our guest was a NYT Bestselling Author, the Co-Founder of Square, the Chairman o...

Send us Fan Mail Recorded live at the Alliance for Automotive Innovation's The Merge 2025, this episode features Drew Ferguson, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis, sharing a deeply personal view of what automotive...