Car Selling Secrets

Scott Lambert, President of the Minnesota Auto Dealers Association joins us in studio to talk about Scott's boldest move, booking the Twin Cities Auto Show at the State Fair. As soon as he announced it, the food vendors lined up to participate. With free parking, great food and Covid protocols, this is destined to be a really exciting event. Tickets will be limited to 10,000 per day. For more info, go to; https://twincitiesautoshow.com/

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The April fool's show reunites Tom and Johnny Rock Lassman. Other than blowing up a 77 Mustang II on the Long Island Expressway, not much car content here but for fans of Twin Cities Radio, is an episode not to miss. Tales of program directors gone awry, life on North Lilac drive and the birth (and death) of the Chucker. These guys haven't seen each other in almost a year and a half and there was lots to catch up on.

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Alex Davis makes his return to Car Selling Secrets. When he was first on, 1 1/2 years ago, he was about to start his sales career at Walser's Porsche Wichita store. He talks about his love for the brand, selling the most expensive car in company history (1.3 Million) and starting his own podcast. Somehow we wind up talking about Eric Eskola and a couple callers phone in to celebrate their recent sobriety. You never know what's going to happen on Car Selling Secrets.

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Andy Swanson, General Manager at Walser Hyundai, joins us in studio to talk about cars oddly enough including the red hot product. Along the way we discuss our inglorious start in the business when the world was a different place.

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Famous local attorney Michael Bryant joins us in studio. After a few minutes of listening to Tom talk about road rage incidents in Palm Beach at the Breakers Golf course, we get down to discussing the ins and outs of the Derek Chauvin trial, how jury selection works, possible pleas and how Covid has affected the jury system. It's actually very interesting.

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The mysterious case of the disappearing guest. What do you do when the phone goes right to voicemail?  Make stuff up and hope for some interesting callers which is exactly what happens.

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Walser automotive group's Marketing Director Kate Lumsden joins us in the studio. Kate has apparently been car crazy her whole life, drawing cars during school as a little girl. With a degree in graphic design, she happened to answer a blind employment ad and wound up working for the Morries automotive group. She starts to pick on her husband's lifted and loud 20 year old Ram before slips up and reveals she a Wrangler driver who lives out in the country. Not a typical background for automotive marketing but it seems to be going well.

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Well, it's the coldest week of the winter so it's a perfect time to talk boats with Dan Chesky from Dan's Southside Marine. We explain to Tom that it's called 'Dock Sailing' not 'Deck sailing. Dan discuses Mercury's new 600 HP V12 outboard that costs 80,000 dollars and can drink three gallons of gas per mile. Tracy Morgan shows up at the end of the show.

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Guest free episode where we talk about Apple and Hyundai making AV's, Caroll Shelby's AC Cobra selling for 12 million dollars, the ongoing chip shortage hurting production and the jaw-dropping Cadillac Blackwing.... Along the way we hear from Officer Dave and Joe from Louisville, Marvin Gaye and the Beatles.

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Leading automotive journalist Cliff Banks joins us to talk about the future of automotive in these changing times including EV's AV's and Hydrogen powered cars. The last 10 minutes inadvertently turned into a commercial for Fuse AutoTech, a software company that will allow a complete digital automotive transaction. For those interested in learning more about the automotive business, I highly recommend subscribing to http://www.thebanksreport.com/.

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