It’s 2024, and the turmoil that surrounded the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association in 2021-22 is gone, if not forgotten.

“The past is a cancer,” said Wendy Rinehart, executive director of the NIADA-affiliated Ohio IADA. “We beat the cancer.”

The focus now for NIADA, its state affiliates, its members and the independent dealer community at large — which includes the vendors that serve it — is unwaveringly forward.

And that has its leaders, members and industry partners excited about ...