The Weekly Edition: It's a new world for WNY's auto dealers
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Anyone who's tried to buy a car in the last couple of years knows the auto industry looks a lot different than it used to.
Lower inventory levels caused by supply chain issues and materials/labor shortages. Customers doing their vehicle shopping mostly —if not entirely — online. Higher interest in hybrid or electric vehicles.
Are these short-term changes? Maybe not.
Business First's Lian Bunny talked to Basil Family Dealerships, Dave Smith Ford, the Niagara Frontier Automobile Dealers Association, Northtown Automotive, Towne Auto Group and West Herr for today's cover story.
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