Especially if you reside within the city limits, you can have beauty products, burritos or beer brought to your front door with just a couple of taps on your smartphone. To help the service providers who need a vehicle to deliver those items, TrueCar and HyreCar announced a new partnership on Wednesday, targeting the car-sharing marketplace […] [Read More]

Amit Chandarana describes Roadster as an omni-channel commerce platform. “Our technology as a digital retailing tool has always been there to facilitate the online sale of a vehicle or the in-store sale of a vehicle,” said Chandarana, who is senior vice president of Roadster. The company recently announced that it is the most certified digital […] [Read More]

The pre-owned vehicle market didn’t get quite as hot a start to the year as it did in 2020. But there are some good signs. There was a 5% year-over-year decline in January’s used-vehicle sales, according to Cox Automotive, which said the total used SAAR was approximately 38.1 million for the month. That’s on par […] [Read More]

Minnesota dealer Paul Walser will become the 2021 chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association during this week's NADA Show 2021. Below is an emailed Q&A with Walser, who succeeds 2020 chairman Rhett Ricart.  Auto Remarketing: What are your top priorities as NADA Chairman in 2021?  Paul Walser: I have four main priorities during my […] [Read More]

Carvana on Thursday made two announcements showing that it seems to plan a continuation of its trend of growth into 2021. After saying Wednesday that it was making its Louisiana debut by bringing its as-soon-as-next-day touchless home delivery to four cities in that state, the company made two additional announcements on Thursday. The first was […] [Read More]

With the all-digital NADA Show 2021 happening this week, Auto Remarketing is launching a special series of Auto Remarketing Podcast episodes around the auto retail space. We begin this series with an episode featuring Tim Cox, senior vice president of sales and co-founder of CarNow. Look for additional episodes throughout the week, featuring executives from Dealer.com, […] [Read More]

Auto Remarketing continues our reporting on 2020 used-vehicle sales for the public retailers, this time looking at Group 1 Automotive, which released its quarterly and full-year earnings report on Thursday. Group 1 has international operations, but for the purposes of consistency, we isolate the U.S. results for this story. And similar to what its peers […] [Read More]

The auto industry hit some bumps in the road during 2020, but there were some bright spots, including some positives in pre-owned.  Those were evident in earnings releases as the public dealer groups began reporting full-year results this week. For instance, Lithia Motors increased its used-vehicle retail revenue by 13.4% in 2020, and sold 7.5% more used […] [Read More]

Carvana made its Louisiana debut on Wednesday. The online retailer announced it was bringing its as-soon-as-next-day touchless home delivery to Lafayette, then made three subsequent announcements that it was launching in the Louisiana cities of Alexandria, Lake Charles and Baton Rouge, as well. In the first announcement on Carvana’s offering in Lafayette, Carvana’s founder and chief executive officer Ernie […] [Read More]

The National Automobile Dealers Association for several years has kept a tradition of making a philanthropic donation to a local organization in the city where its NADA Show takes place. Last year, for example, NADA donated $50,000 to the Nellis Support Team in Las Vegas. That nonprofit organization supports airmen and their families at Nellis […] [Read More]