Industry Elite: Sean Morgan of Westlake Financial Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Sean Morgan, who is executive vice president of finance and operations at Westlake Financial. Morgan talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby ... Listen Here
Automotive Intelligence Award honoree Tom Kontos of Auto Auction Holdings Our conversations with the 2026 Automotive Intelligence Award winners continue with Tom Kontos, who now is analytics advisor for Auto Auction Holdings. Convinced to come out of retirement and get back in the business last fall with the growing wholesale ... Listen Here
Industry Elite: Mike Clark Jr. of C&C Cars Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Mike Clark Jr., operations manager of C& C Cars in Pinellas Park, Fla. Clark is a third-generation dealer and helps run the family business ... Listen Here

Retail

Kerrigan Advisors recaps record-setting year for dealership buy/sell market

Sales of certified pre-owned or used vehicles might not have set records in 2025, but the dealership buy/sell market did. According to the 2025 Blue Sky Report by Kerrigan Advisors released on Tuesday, last year’s transactions reached 458, representing 688 ... [Read More]

Best CPO Dealers: Top 10 Volkswagen stores for certified sales in 2025

Auto Remarketing has released its annual Best CPO Dealers issue, presented by AutoVision, which provides a brand-by-brand ranking of the top dealers for certified pre-owned vehicle sales at 16 automakers. For the remainder of March, we will be showcasing this issue by ... [Read More]

Wholesale

ACV fulfills pledge to scale AI tools with newest feature within the ACV MAX suite

George Chamoun says ACV is going to boost scale of the company’s artificial intelligence-powered tools designed to aid dealers with appraisals, acquisitions, inventory management and inspections. What the CEO highlighted during its most recent quarterly conference call came to further ... [Read More]

Vehicles offered for sale at auction reaches 5-year high

Sales were up for the third straight year and the number of cars up for sale at auto auctions reached a five-year high, according to the National Auto Auction Association’s 2025 NAAA Market Intelligence Report released Monday. There were more ... [Read More]

Resource Hub

Best Practices, Ideas, and Tools for Business

Turn Service Visits Into Sales Growth: A GM’s Checklist

Your service drive is filled with loyal customers who trust your dealership and are physically in your store, yet most...
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The Dealer’s Guide to Smarter GPS Tracking

A Buyer’s Guide for Independent Dealer, BHPH, and Auto Finance Leaders Reducing Risk, Unlocking Opportunity Independent dealers and finance companies...
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Used Car Turn Vendor Management Checklist

Vehicles touch multiple vendors before they ever hit the lot, and when approvals, communication, and invoices are scattered, delays are...
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Technology

Cox Automotive reaches milestone in EV battery recycling

Cox Automotive’s EV Battery Solutions business isn’t done even when a battery is. The company announced it has reached a milestone in electric vehicle battery recycling, having processed and recovered more than 10 million pounds of black mass — material ... [Read More]

eSTART celebrates 2 years of advocacy for modernizing vehicle title and registration

Two years ago today, eSTART got its start. The Electronic Secure Title and Registration Transformation Coalition — better known throughout the auto industry as the eSTART Coalition — was born March 13, 2024, when 18 organizations joined together to advocate ... [Read More]

Analysis

PODCAST: Industry Elite conversations continue with Sean Morgan of Westlake Financial

Next up on in our inaugural Industry Elite: The C-Suite honoree series is a conversation with Sean Morgan, who is executive vice president of finance and operations at Westlake Financial. Morgan talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Automotive Intelligence Award honoree Tom Kontos of Auto Auction Holdings

Our conversations with the 2026 Automotive Intelligence Award winners continue with Tom Kontos, who now is analytics advisor for Auto Auction Holdings. Convinced to come out of retirement and get back in the business last fall with the growing wholesale ... [Read More]

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