In this installment of the NADA Show 2021 series of the Auto Remarketing Podcast, we are joined by Dave O'Brien, co-founder and CEO of Quantum5, a company that provides a "social advocacy learning platform" to provide training on the people skills and behavioral strategies that the digital environment demands. Including an element of gamification. Hear […] [Read More]

Next up on our series of NADA Show 2021 podcasts is a conversation with Jay Maxwell of the Costo Auto Program. Maxwell returns to the show to provide an update on the program, including the pre-owned side of the business. To listen to this episode, click on the link available below, or visit the Auto Remarketing Podcast […] [Read More]

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]