The beat
Abby Moss is Editor in Chief of Wyre News and owns the source list and the routing rules behind all seven reporting desks. On the opinion desk she covers the automotive industry, business strategy and vendor diligence, and writes the house editorial.
The automotive essays are mostly about the parts of a dealership nobody builds a program around: the used inventory filed under other, the warranty job that takes forty-five days in one place and five in another, the cheap truck three manufacturers decided to build at once. The diligence pieces ask a narrower question, which is how a buyer tells a real capability from a rented demo.
Essays
8 essays
- What They DeletedSlate has a $24,950 electric pickup with no paint or stereo. Ford's Fathom is $28,350 with CarPlay and more volume than a RAV4. What each one deleted.
- Borrowed TimeMichael Dunne counts a million cars into Europe in one year, 20 percent of UK sales and 35 percent of Australia. Why tariffs cannot fix the calendar.
- Five Days or Forty-FiveJessica Rider closes OEM warranty jobs in five days where dealerships take forty-five, at comparable volume. She says it is not a throughput problem.
- The Bucket Called OtherAutonomi counts a quarter to a third of used deliveries at a franchise store as off-brand units the OEM built no program around. The sold log has it.
- The Punctuation That SnitchedFive hundred years of elegant work, then the internet renamed it the ChatGPT hyphen. The real history, and the tells that actually give machines away.
- Choose a Partner, Not a CircusThe co-founder decision outranks the idea, the market and the money, and almost nobody vets it. What to evaluate and which red flags end the conversation.
- "AI-Powered." Prove It.Every agency pitch claims AI this year. Where it falls short in marketing and creative, and the questions that separate capability from a rented demo.
- Why a Floof?Beneath the fur is one of nature's most efficient apex predators: precise, intelligent, observant, always in control. The thinking behind the Floof.