Kelley Blue Book revealed its 2017 Brand Image Award winners on Tuesday — Subaru, Lexus and Ford took the top spots after receiving the highest average scores among 12 brand watch factors. This year, Subaru not only took home the title of Best Overall Brand for the second consecutive year, the brand has also been named […] [Read More]

Consolidated Asset Recovery Systems (CARS), a technology and services company that works with finance companies to help streamline the repossession and remarketing process, is hosting a free webinar focused on insurance claims and protecting finance company investments. The session, in conjunction with van Wagenen, will begin at 1 p.m. ET on April 25. The webinar […] [Read More]

ForeverCar.com announced on Monday that it has chosen an industry veteran to join its executive team as the company’s new chief operating officer. Selected for the position is Ryan Kasprzak, who was most recently vice president of pricing and product portfolio strategy at Asurion, a mobile devices and other consumer electronics protection and support company. […] [Read More]

Toyota and Mercedes-Benz have earned top mainstream and luxury brand honors, respectively, in the second annual ALG Pre-Owned Values Awards. The awards, announced Monday, recognize the 2-year-old vehicles expected to retain the most value over the next three years, ALG said in a news release. In addition to the overall brand winners, the POVA’s recognize […] [Read More]

The elimination of federal tax incentives would mean a fender-bender, if not a more serious “crash,” in the electric vehicle market, according to a report released Friday by Edmunds. And there certainly are some implications for the pre-owned side of the EV market. Would a lack of a tax credit on the new EV side indirectly […] [Read More]

Cox Automotive announced that on Monday, the company will launch Flash Forum, a new complimentary educational webinar series created to instruct dealers on how to improve results and successfully grow their wholesale and retail operations. Cox Automotive’s client education services team and subject-matter experts from the company’s various brands will host the 30-minute webinars. The […] [Read More]

Following the first-quarter, the growing demand for light trucks over cars will continue to be noticeable, but this will likely be more of a quandary for creditors rather than dealers, says National Automobile Dealers Association chief economist Steven Szakaly. “The falloff in those sedan prices and then the returns of those leases are much more […] [Read More]

There remains a “fair gap” and “a good amount of play between” the typical retail price between a new vehicle and a used or even a certified pre-owned model. However, Kelley Blue Book senior analyst Alec Gutierrez is seeing trends that are putting pressure on his current assertions. Gutierrez mentioned during a call with the […] [Read More]

Analysts who compiled White Clarke Group’s United Kingdom Asset & Auto Finance Survey 2017 say that the U.K. finance market has been resilient in the face of historic changes in the past year, but challenges will remain in 2017 and beyond. The firm noted its survey points to a series of key factors that will […] [Read More]

The American Financial Services Association, along with two other industry organizations, recently delivered an amicus brief involving a crucial debt collection case in front of the Supreme Court. As AFSA highlighted through its Newsbriefs, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Financial Services Roundtable joined AFSA in arguing their points in a case where the […] [Read More]