Dodge, in partnership with the well-known actor Danny Trejo, have organized a campaign that not only aims to boost test drives at several of its southern California locations, but will also give back to a worthy cause fitting to the locale. Via its “It’ll Test You” Hispanic marketing campaign, Dodge and Trejo have partnered with […] [Read More]

American Recovery Association officials landed their keynote speaker for the next North American Repossessors Summit coming up in April. Scheduled to appear at the event with the headline sponsor Harding Brooks Insurance is Rocky Bleier, who intends to recap his courageous tale that takes place on the football fields of America and the battle fields […] [Read More]

Fitch Ratings doesn’t expect Volkswagen to pay the highest possible fine — $18 billion — stemming from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board revealing findings that allege five of the OEM’s diesel-powered vehicles include “defeat device” software that circumvents emissions standards for certain air pollutants. However, the automaker is already […] [Read More]

Veteran salespeople might remember how the process unfolded 25 years ago when a friend of a friend suggested the buyer go to a certain dealership. Then, shoppers looked over printed vehicle brochures, walked the lot with store personnel and spent the better part of the day finalizing the delivery. Well for today’s dealership customers who might have […] [Read More]

Thanks to a partnership between AuctionACCESS and wholesale floor planning software provider Sword Apak, the lending partners in Sword Apak’s network are now included in the AuctionACCESS floor plan system. This means that current floor plan availability of lenders in the Sword Apak network can be transmitted to all AuctionACCESS auctions. Additionally, floor plan transactions […] [Read More]

DealerSocket found that more than half of surveyed dealers for its inaugural Independent Dealership Action Report cited inventory acquisition and access to capital as the top problems facing their business this year. On Wednesday, DealerSocket director of product marketing Marylou Hastert explained a primary reason why those two problems surfaced through a preview of this report, […] [Read More]

As a millennial (albeit an older one), I’ve always assumed most of my peers were averse toward driving minivans. Turns out, that stigma might not be as strong as I thought, at least not on the pre-owned side. Edmunds.com recently dissected Polk’s used-vehicle registration data from the first half of the year, and guess what […] [Read More]

Service provider WebRecon determined auto financing filings still only represented a small amount of the complaints recently sent to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. WebRecon chief executive officer Jack Gordon examined the regulator’s database and found the CFPB received 3,443 complaints associated with debt collection in July. That total amount represented a 2.1-percent decline on […] [Read More]

With just nine weeks to go until this year’s conference series kicks off, Used Car Week continues to build momentum. In addition to the debut of the sneak peek webinar series for the event (hosted by advertising extraordinaire Paul Potratz), our conferences team has been busy adding new sponsors for Used Car Week. Among those recently […] [Read More]

Millennials accounted for just under 17 percent of the used-car market in the first half of the year, according to Edmunds.com analysis of Polk registration data. But there are some pre-owned models in which millennials represent a larger slice of the pie. And several of those, interestingly enough, are actually discontinued models. Edmunds shared these […] [Read More]