2026 Car Market CHAOS Ford & Mazda Dealer Explains | Episode 999

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and our nation's capital, Washington, D.C.

And this is Car Edge Live for Friday,

January 23rd with your hosts,

me, Ray, Deck Dalton Green here in Ventner City, New Jersey

and Will Zack hanging out with the Spanish Moss

of Savannah, Georgia, even though he's really in D.C.

How are you today, handsome?

I'm doing fantastic.

Happy Friday, everyone.

Thanks so much for tuning in.

We've got a special guest on today's show,

Joe Lewis from JC.

Lewis will bring Joe in here in just a second.

Before we do, a friendly reminder,

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But dad, the big story

that we're gonna be talking about today

is we're gonna bring Joe in for this here.

Joe, good to see you.

Thanks for being here with us.

We're gonna talk about the end of probably 25 and 2026.

Joe, give a brief intro to our community,

those who don't know you,

and then we'll jump into all the fun conversation.

Yeah, thank you all for having me.

It's always a pleasure to be on the show.

I'm the general, one of the general managers here,

JC Lewis, I manage our Lincoln and Normasa stores.

We've also got four Ford stores,

so six in total in the Savannah Southeast area.

Love it.

And I'm just gonna pull up your website

really quickly here.

Joe's website is jcluis.com.

If you're interested,

we have no commercial relationship

between Car Edge and JC Lewis.

We just love Joe's insights.

Love bringing him on the show here

so check out his website to learn more.

Pops, I'll let you ask the first question here,

but fingers crossed it has something to do

with how they performed in 2025.

Well, lucky you.

Good guess on your part, Joe.

How was December?

How did 2025 close out?

Was it what you had expected

or hoped for or was it less?

Yeah, you know,

December is usually a strong month in the car business.

It's usually starts out with a slow first couple of weeks

and then those last,

that last week, week and a half is usually really busy.

And that was the same that we saw this year.

So a pretty good close,

not quite as crazy as we had hoped,

but a pretty good close to the year.

All right, so did 2025 end in a way

that you felt really confident about?

How things started to look here in 2026?

We know from looking at the data,

we just talked about it yesterday.

I can even pull it up on the screen here.

Ford and Mazda, two of the brands

that your group represents,

you go to the new inventory market day supply

and they're both to the right

of the national day supply metric here.

So how did 2025 kind of end relative to your expectations

and how are things starting to look here in 2026?

Yeah, you know, we were up a few percent

year over year in total units for all six stores.

Obviously Mazda got hit with tariffs pretty hard

in the middle of 2025.

So, you know, Mazda ended down a little bit

as far as units went,

but overall the Ford stores were way up.

Lincoln was pretty flat.

So it was good.

And we project that 2026 is as we continue

to kind of get in this high volume mindset,

high volume, less gross.

You know, we ended the year with 804 retail units.

And we expect to hit closer to that 900, you know, threshold.

And that's for one month.

We ended up 804 as like an average

and we're hoping to get to that 900 number.

Interesting.

So, Joe, let me ask you a question if I may.

We know that the Mazda CX-30

was a very popular car at one point in time.

But because it's built in Mexico,

it seems as if Mazda decided to cut back

the number of CX-30s that they were going to import

into the United States.

Has that impacted your Mazda business

not having one of the more popular models available

in the numbers that you had in the past?

Yeah, it has.

And like I said, tariffs through wrench

in the Mazda business in a big way.

And what we've been told is that, you know,

CX-30 went from one of their most profitable cars

to, frankly, Mazda's losing a couple thousand bucks

on every CX-30 they produce.

Wow.

Their mindset is the incentives

and special interest rates have gotten worse on CX-30.

They're making less of them.

And the Mazda 3, the hatchback in the sedan

went from being one of their least profitable cars

to now it's one of their most profitable.

So we've seen kind of a seesaw effect there

where now the Mazda 3, sedan and hatchback,

they're putting crazy incentives on them

and they're starting to produce more of them.

So Mazda's really hoping that we can start

to sell a lot more of their Mazda 3s.

May I ask a follow up to that?

Sure.

Last year and 2024 was the first time

in Mazda's history in the United States

where they had consecutive years

of 400,000 plus sales for the company.

What is Mazda's projection for what they hope 2026 to be?

They're expecting it to be better than 2025.

25 was good, but we went from a record year in 24.

I think they sold like 420,000 right around there.

And their next goal before, their eventual goal is 500,000

but their next goal was 450.

And we were on pace to possibly do that in 25

and then tariffs happened and then that was out the window.

So I think whether it's 26 or 27 their next goal

is 450,000 and they're pushing really hard

to get that done.

Now, if you have a question for Joe,

Joe Lewis from JC Lewis, leave it in the chat.

We'll pull up some of those on today's show

and ask them.

You said something before that really struck a nerve with me.

Something to the effect of less gross, more volume.

And you said something about 800 to 900 cars sold per month.

Can you talk to us about as you manage a dealership

in this moment, how your strategy

for managing the dealership has evolved over the past year?

And obviously as you head into 2026,

break down those two comments, 800 to 900

and less gross, more volume.

What does that actually mean for our audience?

Which as you know,

as people end up calling you after we do these shows

these people are interested in learning more

about how to get a good car deal.

So help us understand what those mean.

Yeah, the simplest terms I can put it in

is it's gone from a seller's market to a buyer's market.

It's way easier to get deals now

than it was a year or two, three years ago.

And most of that's driven by inventory.

Now that the manufacturers are back

to fluff an inventory down our throats,

you either can sit on them and try to make all the money

or you can just try to move the metal really, really quick.

And that's our philosophy.

So what's the incentive to sell more cars

with less profit per vehicle sold?

Because my dad's shared many stories with me Joe

about monthly incentives, things like that.

Like is that legitimate, is that true?

Like is there an incentive to evolve your business model

as you're kind of realizing that, okay,

maybe less people are gonna come in and buy

at certain price points?

Right, it's, you know,

some manufacturers have stair step programs,

some don't, you know,

Mazda and Lincoln right now do not.

But, you know, every car you sell is, you know,

another dealer fee you get,

another chance you get to get back in financing.

More cars in your backyard means more people

returning for service.

It's just feeding that machine.

And a lot of it's like a long-term dividend

versus, you know, a short-term.

A short-term would be, you know,

selling the car and making all the money.

But when you put a ton of cars out there,

it's kind of that long-term effect.

Makes sense.

If I can add to that,

you know, we know from the sixth largest

publicly traded dealer groups out there

that in quarter three of last year,

the average F&I profit, finance profit

in the back end of most stores

was $2,282 car vehicle sold.

So, when the question becomes,

will you take a little less gross of the front end?

Well, you get, you have the opportunity

to make it up in the back end.

Do you not?

Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right.

So, you're hoping for that.

You know, if you lose one or 2,000 bucks on the front,

you're hoping for that 2,000 on the back.

And that's an average, of course.

You know, if someone writes a check,

doesn't buy anything, you're getting none.

But then there's someone you make three or four.

You know, Mazda's one of the brands

where Mazda's a decent bit below that 2,200.

Mazda's closer to, you know, 1,300, 1,400 on the back.

Just as our most import brands like Honda and Toyota as well.

But yeah, that's exactly what we're trying to do.

Can we take a moment here, Joe?

So, that's the new car side of things.

Heard you loud and clear.

It's evolved from a buyers market,

excuse me, from a sellers market to more of buyers market.

You used the term inventory coming down your throat.

So, it's like obviously on the new car side of things,

things are evolving.

And I'm sure you could talk about the nuance

between brands as well.

Things that Lincoln are different than Ford

and things that Ford are different than Mazda.

But I want to pivot here quickly.

What are you seeing on the used car side of things?

And I'll bring up from Cox Automotive as well.

They had a headline recently.

Used vehicle inventory holds steady to start 2026

as sales momentum builds.

We've been talking about it on this channel forever,

the affordability crisis

and more people looking for used options.

What are you seeing on the used car side

of things at your dealerships?

Are there a lot of used car shoppers?

Are they able to get approved?

Also tied to this, like our trade and value is high

still right now.

What are you seeing on the used car side of things?

Yeah, the used car business continues to be tough.

That's one of the big focuses of our group right now

is everybody wants all the money for their trade

and when you're selling the used cars,

everyone wants the best deal.

That's the name of the car business.

We try to get as much as we can for it

and consumers try to get as little as they can for it.

Used cars is a tough business right now,

but we don't buy a ton of cars from the auction

where our mindset is just to sell a ton of cars.

So we're getting back to that volume perspective,

sell a ton of new cars and get a ton of trades.

And with those trades, try to flip those quickly too.

But used cars are sitting longer

as inventory ramps up, used cars do too.

So it's not as hard to find used cars now.

So they're sitting longer

and that goes back to the whole.

It being tough right now.

Are you finding that you're keeping older,

higher mileage used cars

that you might not have kept in the past, say pre-COVID?

I would say for most dealerships, yes,

but we've always been a group

that tries to retail everything possible.

So if it's on our website and it's for sale,

it means that we've had certified technicians

do a full inspection on the car

and we fixed everything that needed fixing on that car.

If it comes in, even though it might seem like a retail piece,

if it's a five-year-old car with 50,000 miles

and it should be retailable,

but the cost to fix that car was too much to retail it,

then we would wholesale it.

So we're doing everything we can to retail

as many as possible.

What would you say is your average reconditioning cost

for your retail used cars?

And just for everyone that doesn't follow the jargon,

reconditioning cost is how much money,

which I'm giving Joe a second year to look it up,

how much money the dealer actually has to spend

to get the car up to being showroom-ready

to sell it to another retail customer.

This can, my dad's always said this year,

this can make or break the used car deals,

how much your recon cost was.

Yeah, so and keep in mind,

month to date we're at $1910 and 61 cents average recon.

Last month we were 1875, but keep in mind

that's only the cars that we've kept and we've retailed.

So there's another bucket of wholesales.

Right now we've got 24 in our wholesale bucket

and that's just for the three stores in Savannah

that we haven't wholesaled yet.

So those cars might have three, four, five, eight,

10, $15,000 recon estimates that we declined

and put in wholesales.

So if you added those wholesales into that number,

it's way higher than the 1910.

Go for it, Ted.

Well, I was gonna say,

when you look at what the expense

that's expected on those wholesale cars,

no wonder you don't wanna buy cars at the auction

because whatever cars dealers typically

are sending to the auction are cars

that they didn't wanna spend the reconditioning dollars on.

So you know pretty much you're buying that dealer's headache

and you're either taking a lot of Thailand oil

when you buy that car

or you're not gonna do all the repairs

that are necessary so that you can still sell it

and make a profit.

I was 100% and a lot of people think like,

oh, $5,000 or $10,000, that's ridiculous.

You'd be really surprised at how many cars have trade-ins

we get that have serious issues.

I'm looking at one right now, just as an example.

It's a 2018 Mazda CX-9 with 134,000 miles car

we took in on trade, recon estimate $11,707.

So that one's going to wholesale.

I don't know why, Joe.

And people think, oh, that must mean it's a needs an engine

or transmission, not in this case.

In this case, it's just a whole bunch of stuff added up.

You throw in an oil leak and it adds up.

I just wanted to butt in because this level

of transparency is why we love Joe.

Joe manages dealerships over at JC Lewis.

It's in his last name.

It's in the family business.

JC Lewis.com.

Check out their website,

learn more about what they're doing over at JC Lewis.

They've got over 1,500 vehicles in stock

and this is why we love Joe.

The transparency is just unparalleled here

and it really is appreciated.

And I want to point out one comment.

If you can pull it up, the turbo diesel 73 made

is so adding another 10% to use car price right up front.

So that's incorrect.

So we price all of our cars to the market, right?

So our philosophy is we're going to price

all of our used cars at 97 to 98% of the market.

We try to be a couple percent below

so we can tell everybody who comes in,

hey, you're getting a deal compared to what's out there.

Whether I spent $5,000 in recon on that car

or 500 on the recon,

I'm still pricing that car at 97, 98%.

That's just where we have to appraise the car correctly

and know what we're going to have to put into it

before we acquire that car.

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Love it.

I can share stories with you when I was a closer

at a Mazda Volkswagen store

and the used car manager oftentimes

was quite capable of appraising a car

from his seat at the desk

without ever getting in the car.

And I thought to myself,

my God, what a disservice you're doing

to the owner of this dealership.

You can't know what a car might need

if you just ask the salesman to turn it on

and say, how does it sound?

So it is so important to actually drive a car,

appraise a car, really look for issues

that you might have,

because if you're off, for instance,

on that CX-90 you're talking about

or CX-9 you're talking about,

you very well might end up losing money

at the sale on that car.

And that's not necessarily what you had in mind

when you traded it, I don't believe.

Right.

Yeah, side unseen appraisals, of course,

we've got to appraise them

as if they're in perfect condition.

But once the cars come in,

it's a process here that we look at them,

we drive them and we inspect them as much as we can.

Obviously, you know, customers don't wanna wait around

for us to drive it back to service,

put it on the lift and get a full inspection.

But we try to do as much as we can

to figure out what that car is gonna need.

Makes a lot of sense.

Now, Joe, if we can just get

a couple more minutes of your time.

I wanna talk about Edmunds recently came out

with some really interesting data around negative equity.

I'm not sure if you've seen this,

but it is so interesting.

And they show that nearly 30% of trade-ins

had negative equity in Q4 of 2025,

which is the highest share since Q1 of 2021.

And the average amount of negative equity

is an all-time record of $7,214.

And more than a quarter, 27% of those

that have negative equity had more than $10,000

in negative equity.

What are you seeing at JC Lewis?

Are you seeing negative equity?

Are you seeing this blow up car deals?

Are you seeing how are people getting approved

for auto loans if they do have negative equity?

This data, when we saw it, was just like mind-boggling.

So I'm very curious what you're seeing

at the front lines with your dealership

when it comes to this.

Yeah, we're seeing that exact same thing.

You know, when that Edmunds data showed highest

since 2021, that's spot on.

We're seeing a lot of it.

And depending on the deal structure, the credit,

the loan to value, things like that,

we can still get deals approved.

But, you know, for instance, if you don't have good credits,

it's going to be really, really tough to get approved.

And even if you do have good credit,

you're not going to get approved typically

over 140% loan to value.

Doesn't matter how good your credit is, right?

If you're trying to borrow $60,000 on a $40,000 new car,

it's going to, or a $30,000 new car, make it 150%.

It doesn't matter how much or how good your credit is,

you're going to have to put money down to get that loan

to value for the bank down to a minimum of $130,000, $140,000.

Are you seeing loan terms get even further extended out

in order to keep payments on a monthly basis

affordable for a lot of your customers?

Yeah, you know, I mean, we have banks

that have offered 84 months for several years now.

I think there's some credit unions.

We don't work with any banks, but there's some credit unions

that offer 96 months.

We actually just had a bank graph come in here yesterday

that said that they just, they're piloting a new program where

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For jumbo loans, over $100,000.

So for your high ticket items, I'm

trying to think of all of the things you have to check off

to be able to qualify for it.

But I think it was, if the loan was over $100,000

and you had 15% down, they would finance you for 120 months.

Oh my god.

You know, and the sad reality is that there's not really

a whole heck of a lot of people that can qualify for $100,000

plus for a vehicle.

And if they can, they typically would have enough money

to put a sizable chunk down.

I mean to subject a customer to 10 years worth of financing.

Oh, I know that the negative equity would just

be through the roof.

And we're the type dealership that would say, hey,

if you've got to go 120 months on a car loan,

we probably just need to look at a different car.

Because when you tend to trade that thing in in three

or four years, you are going to be so far upside down.

So you are seeing this in your business

over the last quarter and here in 2026

you are seeing more negative equity in customers.

Obviously, still trying to get into a new vehicle

and finding ways to make it happen.

But this phenomena that Edmonds is reporting

is real in your backyard is what you're saying.

Oh yeah.

It 100% is.

Are you seeing the manufacturers

captive lenders offering better lease programs

in order to try and come up with ways

to make the monthly payments more affordable?

Yeah, in all three of the brands that we work with,

they're always trying to come up with better residuals,

lease rates, things like that.

But here in the South, leasing has never

been as popular as up north.

And the main reason for that is someone

that leases a car up in New York versus down here in Georgia,

there's going to be a decent spread in that lease payment

on the same car just because leasing programs are

typically better up there.

But yeah, we do see manufacturers

trying to work on that as much as they can when they throw

incentives on these cars.

May I ask one more question, Zach?

Go for it, Dad.

And then, Joe, I've got one more for you as well.

And then we'll get back to running your business.

Yeah.

Ford Motor Company has publicly come out

and said that there is an affordability issue for Ford

and that they're going to try to address that.

And I assume the way you address that

is you begin to build more of your entry-level vehicles

at a lower MSRP.

Have you seen Ford's action match their words yet?

You know, I mean, I loved when they came out

with the Ford Maverick a few years ago.

I think that was a great addition to the whole affordability

crisis.

But you know, it's kind of tough because Ford's

one of those brands that their bread and butter is the bigger

SUVs and the bigger trucks.

And we're seeing the Ford Escape go away now,

which they had the EcoSport that one away

and now the Escape's going away,

which isn't a bad thing for me because, hey,

if you want an EcoSport or Escape,

come look at some Mazda CX-30, CX-5s, and CX-50s.

We got you.

But you know, they're talking about coming out

with some other alternatives.

So I mean, we'll see how that looks in the next few years.

Got you, Danny.

Joe, I want to put you on the spot really quickly here.

I pulled up a vehicle that's for sale at your dealership.

And I want you to talk a little bit about this.

We've got a 2026 Mazda CX-90 select package, the MSRP,

your advertised price, the invoice price.

And I'm going to run down here to days on market

and market days supply.

So you know here at CarEdge,

we love to preach the importance

of understanding market conditions.

So talk us through a little bit here,

your current inventory situation,

this vehicle in particular.

You've had it for 89 days.

The under 80 days supply in your local area.

How does this type of information influence

how you manage your business?

And are there particular makes and models that,

I guess in your case with Mazda,

just specific models that have

a little bit more days supply than others?

We're in that buyer's market,

like you talked about a second ago.

Does this market information influence

how you approach your business?

And should it influence how customers come into the dealership

and think through their deal?

Yeah, it does.

And keep in mind that that market day supply info,

it's different for every region, right?

So if you look at just my store with inventory,

I have and what I sell at the Mazda store.

We've got a 64 day supply of the current inventory,

which that kind of goes back to,

we're trying to just sell it really, really quick,

get it out of here.

My goal is to have a lower day supply

than other Mazda dealers.

And to that point,

because this number that we're looking at here of 180

is specific within a 100 mile radius.

So including all other Mazda dealers

and it's specific to 26 CX90 select package options,

which again, there's only three

that have sold the last 45 days, but 12.

And I'm thinking not all 12 are at your dealership.

And so it does show that there are some dealers out there

that are willing to sit on stuff

or not be as aggressive on pricing

or provide as good of an experience, et cetera,

to sell those vehicles because you're at 64.

Well, the market's at almost three times that.

Yeah, and you know, it's interesting

because it's different for every car.

So I'm looking at our inventory spread for Mazda right now

and CX90, this takes into account all trim levels,

but CX90, I'm at a 133 day supply.

CX50 hybrid, I'm at 130 day supply.

Mazda 3 hatchback, I'm at 181 day supply.

But then you can look at the cars

that I'm really, really low day supply

and like Miata, 36 day supply.

CX50, 40 day supply, 30, 46 day supply.

CX5, 50 day supply.

So we definitely do take that into account when selling.

If it's a car that we sell really, really quick,

might not want to be quite as aggressive,

but if someone comes in here on a Mazda 3 hatchback

that I've got 181 day supply on,

or a CX90, 133, or a CX50 hybrid, 130 day supply,

we need to kind of sharpen our pencil a bit more on that.

You know, and not that we're not going to sharpen our

pencil on the other ones,

but it's important to take all of those factors in,

how long the car's been here,

how quickly that type of car moves.

You know, a lot of factors when penciling car deals.

Last question for Joe,

and then we got to let him run his business

from Orange Rubber Ducky.

What do you drive, Joe?

What's your daily drive?

Right now it is a, you know,

plug your ears, Mazda and Lincoln, OEM,

if you're watching this,

but right now I'm driving a F-150 trimmer.

There it is, we appreciate it.

See, he's honest, he's transparent, we appreciate it.

Well, Joe, it's always a treat to have you on again.

JCLewis.com is the group that Joe represents.

It's in the family name.

We love his transparency.

He joins us with some frequency, which we appreciate.

So, Joe, thanks so much for taking the time today.

And if you do reach out to Joe and his team,

let them know courage sent you,

but stay safe with the snowstorm

and the ice storm coming through, Joe.

We really appreciate you.

Y'all too, appreciate it.

Yeah, it's like again, Joe.

What a treat, man.

Yes, yeah.

What a treat.

I wish the conversations that we could have

with all dealers could be as open

as the information we get from Joe.

I mean, he sat there and broke it down by model for you.

So, you know, what's selling well in his market

and what isn't.

And so, if you're looking for a deal,

just look at what isn't selling as quickly.

He told us his recon cost broken down by month.

I mean, it doesn't get any more.

Like, obviously we're in the weeds

of the car business at this point,

but you got to appreciate the transparency.

You got to appreciate the candor there for sure.

Oh, absolutely.

And if you can pull up the comment I just started

from Igor, Ray, talk about blizzards and deals.

So, for those of you who are in the Midwest

and Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast,

we are heading into a, well,

what has been described as a very major winter storm.

And one of the things I can tell you

from having worked in automobile dealerships

is the threat of storms and during storms,

there are very few people that actually go

into a dealership to look at or purchase vehicles.

Now, what you have to remember is that salespeople

earn commissions on vehicles that they sell.

They don't earn anything for sitting

at a dealership 12 hours in a day

and not talking to anybody.

Sales managers get paid off of gross profit

that is produced.

And the only way they produce gross profit

is by selling cars.

So, if you're ever looking for a great deal,

do it when it's really cold outside.

Do it when there's the threat of a storm

and very few people will be showing up at the dealership

or do it at the beginning of the storm.

They will take you as being a serious buyer

because you showed up when most people wouldn't

and truth of the matter is the sales manager's job

and the sales person's job is not to screw that up.

So, if you show up and you're serious,

they will figure out a way to have you go home

in a new vehicle and they'll help and pray for you

that you don't have an accident on the bad roads

on the way home.

All right, folks.

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We're gonna head into the weekend here

and get some nice rest and relaxation.

We're back for a normal full week

of Car Edge Live next week.

So, please tune in.

We expect to see everyone here

at 12 p.m. Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific on Monday.

We're excited for it, so please tune in.

Dad, enjoy the weekend, be safe.

I promise I'll do the same here.

And again, thank you to Joe from J.C. Lewis,

Joe Lewis from J.C. Lewis for joining us

and sharing his insights.

Pops, I love you.

Enjoy the afternoon.

I'll catch you on Monday.

I love you as well.

Please be careful this weekend.

I believe DC is going to get worse

to know that I'm going to see,

but they are predicting probably three to six inches of snow

and a quarter inch of ice on top of that

here in the Atlantic City area.

And, well, that doesn't bode well for old men

with old bones.

So, I'll be staying indoors, I promise.

Can't wait, Dad, be safe.

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This winter, know what your vehicle needs

before it needs it.

Visit your Chevrolet Certified Service Center

and ask for a multi-point vehicle inspection

and take advantage of stackable rebates.

See dealer for complete details.

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