In the spirit of summer holidays like Independence Day, Cars.com suggests that auto dealers align their pre-holiday advertising and mobile content in time for holiday weekends. The third-party shopping site found that during holidays, car shoppers tend to buy — and they also want special offers delivered to their mobile phones. Consider the traffic dealerships saw this Memorial […] [Read More]

Park Place Dealerships has both moved its Jaguar dealership from Plano, Texas, to Grapevine and added the Land Rover brand to its portfolio. Construction for Park Place’s new store, Jaguar Land Rover DFW, is complete and is set to open on Saturday with a roster of 70 employees. This is the third dealership in Northeast Tarrant […] [Read More]

Larry H. Miller Dodge Ram Avondale recently announced that it has once again made it onto The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com’s 2017 list of Top Companies to Work For in Arizona. The dealership is on the list for the second consecutive year. A total of 100 companies are chosen each year. All of the companies were […] [Read More]

Used-car sales this month could trend down a bit from May, but they should maintain the same annualized rate, according to Edmunds. The company released its monthly industry sales projections on Wednesday, calling for approximately 3.2 million used-car sales in June. That’s down from 3.3 million in May. However, the seasonally adjusted annualized sales rate […] [Read More]

Dominion Dealer Solutions recently announced that it is the latest company to join the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association’s National Member Benefit program. NIADA members can now save on multiple Dominion products, including Web Control, Cross-Sell Reports, websites and Dominion Dealer Specialties' on-the-lot inventory services. "Forging a partnership with NIADA is a natural fit for […] [Read More]

Galpin Motors is currently aiming to sell 11,000 vehicles during its annual summer sales event, which kicked off on Memorial Day weekend and will continue through the end of September. Over the years, the dealership has committed to sales challenges such as the Galpin 3,000, the Galpin 4,000, the Galpin 6,000 and the more recent […] [Read More]

Larry H. Miller Dealerships recently acquired a Nissan store in Denver, making the city the group’s largest market outside of its Salt Lake City headquarters. The Nissan store is located at 2400 W. 104th Avenue in Denver and has been renamed Larry H. Miller Nissan 104th. This purchase follows four years of continued growth within […] [Read More]

As expected, embattled airbag maker Takata late on Sunday filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States and confirmed plans to sell many of its assets to Michigan-based Key Safety Systems (KSS). Company news releases indicated Takata’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy process in the U.S. will be completed in the first quarter of 2018 as an […] [Read More]

Less than 13 miles from Auto Remarketing’s headquarters in North Carolina, Tesla appeared to have scored at least a partial victory in the ongoing fight over its retail model. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported a bill Wednesday in the North Carolina General Assembly that the newspaper said would permit dealerships owned by companies […] [Read More]

The customer may be going through most of the car transaction online, but interacting with another person in that process is crucial. That’s one of the lessons CarMax has picked up in testing its home delivery program, the company’s president and chief executive officer said in an earnings call Wednesday. CarMax Home Delivery, which is […] [Read More]