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2020 has taken us by storm, and things continue to pick up speed for the automotive industry. Some dealers experienced inventory being stolen during the midst of the Coronavirus chaos and shutdowns. Things have segued into a more unfortunate situation, following the death of George Floyd a few weeks ago. If things were not already crazy enough, more fuel has been added to the fire of unrest in our country.

Since the initial announcement back in October of last year, the Fiat Chrysler-Peugeot 50/50 merger has been ironed out and prepped for completion. The original goal in mind was to combine two steady forces along with their staff and revenue to make what will be the fourth largest automaker.

At the end of 2017, Automotive News wrote an article about its predictions for the automotive industry in 2018. We thought it would be fun to see how close they got with these predictions, so let’s take a look to see how they played out.