Cindy Allen

A year can lose momentum without losing footing. In 2025, the math of the car deal tightened. Front-end profit compressed, affordability stayed tight, and volume never re-established a clean rhythm amid tariff talk, inventory swings, and electric-vehicle volatility. Yet F&I outcomes held near record territory, less as a victory lap than as evidence of what remained durable once the front-end cushion thinned.

A year can lose momentum without losing footing. In 2025, the math of the car deal tightened. Front-end profit compressed, affordability stayed tight, and volume never re-established a clean rhythm amid tariff talk, inventory swings, and electric-vehicle volatility. Yet F&I outcomes held near record territory, less as a victory lap than as evidence of what remained durable once the front-end cushion thinned.

On behalf of the entire Interior Design Media team, I want to express our deeply heartfelt condolences to the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the countless other innocent victims of police brutality. We feel their sorrow and their outrage at these wanton acts of injustice—only the most recent in a history-long series of wrongs perpetrated against the Black community, with the craven intent of systematically oppressing a whole sector of our society and thus of dividing us all. NO.