Election season got you down? If you're a dealer doing business in a battleground state, the answer is most likely yes. A recent analysis by Dealer.com revealed that car-shopping behavior in states where the vote can “swing” either red or blue – Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and […] [Read More]

Marketers are using mobile’s targeting capabilities to more adeptly find their prospects and customers. Although certain best practices are universal, sometimes you need a unique approach to best navigate industry-specific challenges. The auto purchase journey is more fragmented than ever before, and people are doing more research online before visiting a dealership. Marketers need to […] [Read More]

With recalls very much in the news these days, dealers and drivers alike may be wondering about automakers’ track records when it comes to such actions. Using new-vehicle sales data as well as recall data from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration from the last three-plus decades, iSeeCars endeavored to find out. The Boston-based automotive […] [Read More]

A preview of some of the enlightening discussions on tap for this year’s Re3 Conference presented by MBSi Corp. is scheduled for the final edition of Used Car Week Live. The online video event set for 2 p.m. ET next Thursday will include Cort DeHart, who is both vice president of business development at Agero and […] [Read More]

When it comes to smaller new-car segments, one of the trends at play in the slowdown is “an affordability issue,” says Autotrader senior analyst Michelle Krebs.  “There are just many consumers who are being frozen out of the new-car market,” Krebs said during the Q&A portion of sales day conference call with the media on […] [Read More]

They might not always appear on the driveway wrapped in a giant bow, but gifted cars — either to a loved one or one’s self — are a big deal. And millennials, it turns out, are the demographic most likely to be doing the gifting. According to eBay Motors’ just-released Holiday Automotive Gifting Survey, millennials […] [Read More]

Auto Remarketing and SubPrime Auto Finance News have announced the winner of this year’s Re3 Executive of the Year Award, which is being presented by Consolidated Asset Recovery Systems (CARS). The honoree who will be presented with the accolade at the Re3 Conference during Used Car Week is Jerry Shelby, who is the director of […] [Read More]

Vehicles in recent years have become better equipped and often contain more advanced technology, but while these upgrades might lead to higher MSRPs, they aren’t lifting prices in the auction lanes as late-model pre-owned units. The reason? Largely, there are so many of them. According to the latest Blue Book Market Report from Kelley Blue […] [Read More]

On Wednesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau updated its compliance bulletin on service providers, which can include skip-tracers, repossession agents and other firms that provide assistance during the recovery process. According to what the CFPB published through the Federal Register, an amendment was needed to clarify that supervised entities have flexibility, allowing for appropriate risk […] [Read More]

Not only are millennials becoming a bigger chunk of today’s car shoppers, they are squashing some stereotypes in the process. Edmunds’ newly released Car Shopping and Gender Report reveals that the idea of the man as the confident decision maker and the woman as the clueless sidekick doesn’t hold so much weight these days. Of […] [Read More]