You can pick a Car of the Year, but that vehicle isn’t going to work for everyone. A family on a budget, say, might not be interested in a luxury car. So for its inaugural Confidence Awards, CarGurus selected the best vehicle in four specific categories that the company said “reflect the needs of today’s […] [Read More]

The service drive is an inherently loud environment. There is the roar of impact wrenches, the constant ringing of phones, the pressure of waiting customers, and rapid-fire coordination between parts and service. The baseline operating volume is chaotic, and in this daily turbulence, the most ineffective thing a fixed ops director can do is add […] [Read More]

Customers are likely to bristle at the money they shell out to buy a used car these days. Percentagewise, the jump in price from March to April was about three times the typical sequential change for a given month, says Carfax. But there may be some relief for shoppers on the other side of the […] [Read More]

Auction sales of electric vehicles climbed 46% in 2025 and continued along that trajectory in the first quarter. The full-year growth in 2026, however, could be even more significant, thanks to off-lease EV volumes nearly tripling in size, according to an AuctionNet report from the National Auto Auction Association. There were 159,280 EV sales at […] [Read More]

Not since mid-COVID have sales at auto auctions been as strong as they were in March. According to AuctionNet data from the National Auto Auction Association, wholesale vehicle sales climbed nearly 4% year-over-year in March and reached their strongest point since July 2020. While dealer sales at auction have slowed this year, sales from commercial […] [Read More]

Auto auctions and dealers are selling used electric vehicles at record or near-record clips. Sales of EVs at Manheim auctions reached a record high in the first quarter, according to parent company Cox Automotive, which also observed the second strongest quarter of all time for used EV sales in the overall retail car market. Manheim […] [Read More]

The first quarter of 2026 has been a busy one for auto recalls. According to BizzyCar’s Q1 2026 Recall Report, 11.6 million vehicles were recalled in the U.S. during the quarter, the most of any quarter since the company began keeping records in 2022. But that surge was driven by relatively few actual recall campaigns […] [Read More]