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Bain survey reinforces value of dealers around the globe
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Mercedes-Benz USA approves NETSOL as a digital retail provider for its dealerships
NETSOL Technologies recently highlighted Mercedes-Benz USA has approved NETSOL as a digital retail provider for Mercedes-Benz dealerships. This move opens the brand’s dealer network to Transcend Retail, NETSOL’s digital retail platform. The platform gives buyers a single, continuous purchase experience, ... Read More
Point Predictive deploys Predictor Agents using data from more than 650 lenders
Point Predictive recently launched Predictor Agents, a deep intelligence fraud-prevention tool. The tool is designed to give lenders three new ways to manage fraud before funding and during servicing, covering the applications they receive and, for auto lenders, the dealers ... Read More
Intellicheck & Agility Credit partner for multi-layered fraud prevention at dealerships
Intellicheck recently announced a partnership with Agility Credit that brings Intellicheck’s identity authentication technology together with Agility Credit’s single platform for credit data, identity verification, fraud prevention and compliance enforcement. The company said car dealers also can access credit bureau ... Read More
SPONSORED EPISODE: What independent dealers need to be successful with Chris Vangellow of Frazer
In this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, Chris Vangellow, who is the Director of Product Management at Frazer, described what’s changed most about running an independent dealership over the past few years, especially from a technology perspective. ... Listen Here
Used Car Week Hall of Fame: Grace Huang of Cox Automotive
We begin our series featuring the 2026 Used Car Week Hall of Fame honorees with Grace Huang, president of Cox Automotive Inventory Solutions, who joins Cherokee Media Group’s Joe Overby for a conversation about her career journey, the value of ... Listen Here
Ben Sporn of VIP Automotive Group Takes DIY Approach to AI
Ben Sporn is the chief marketing officer of VIP Automotive Group on Long Island, N.Y. , where he runs operations and artificial intelligence projects at his family’s 10-store dealer group. He also has a tech background, having worked for Google ... Listen Here
Retail
Dealer M&A: Lithia, Anderson Automotive expand in Southeast
Lithia & Driveway has acquired four Kia and Hyundai dealerships in Memphis, Tenn., from Gossett Motor Cars, more than doubling the retailer’s footprint in the city. That’s according to a news release from Kerrigan Advisors, which represented the seller. The ... [Read More]
Franchise Equity Partners adds ex-Lithia exec as operating partner
Franchise Equity Partners has brought on former Lithia & Driveway executive Chris Holzshu as an operating partner at the private equity firm. During his 20-plus years at Lithia, Holzshu held such leadership posts as executive vice president, chief operating officer ... [Read More]
Wholesale
Q&A with Jackie Malik of Credit Acceptance, the 2026 National Remarketing Executive of the Year
Below is a Q&A with Jackie Malik, remarketing manager at Credit Acceptance, who is the 2026 National Remarketing Executive of the Year, a Used Car Week award sponsored by the Independent Auction Group. What are the top trends you’re watching ... [Read More]
Copart’s acquisition of ACV could help ‘make a splash’ in commercial consignment, too
Copart’s $1.9 billion all-cash acquisition of ACV Auctions, which closed last week, is big opportunity for the former to expand further into the whole-car remarketing space, particularly among franchise dealers. “I think this opens up the world and our ability ... [Read More]
Technology
Lefkoff Law: ‘Trickle down’ to dealers of VinSolutions’ security incident ‘could be enormous’
Lefkoff Law principal and founding attorney Steven Lefkoff immediately arrived at this assertion when he learned that Cox Automotive on Monday acknowledged “suspicious activity” that was “quickly contained” within VinSolutions. “The trickle down to the dealers could be enormous because ... [Read More]
Open Auto forms alliance to ‘develop shared standards’ around AI in automotive
When multiple, separate entities independently develop and implement technologies, siloes can happen. As artificial intelligence and other tech innovations grow, a new initiative in the auto industry is looking to help make sure that doesn’t happen by focusing on “developing ... [Read More]
Analysis
COMMENTARY: Auto transportation costs are changing the economics of vehicle acquisition
A vehicle can look like a great buy at auction until a dealership factors in what it will cost to get it to the lot. Transportation has always been part of the cost of acquiring inventory for a dealership. But ... [Read More]
In this San Diego sequel, what’s new at Used Car Week?
Since we’re back in San Diego for Used Car Week 2026, I’ll start with a hot take on “Top Gun,” arguably the most famous San Diego-based movie of all time (sorry, Ron Burgundy?). Like “The Godfather” or “Star Wars,” it’s ... [Read More]
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