The National Independent Automobile Dealers Association announced this week that it now approves 700Credit as a NIADA National Benefit Partner and credit data provider to its dealers. “We couldn’t be more proud to be selected by NIADA as a National Member Benefit partner,” Kenneth Hill, the managing director at 700Credit, said. “NIADA is leading its independent dealer […] [Read More]

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration broadened its advisory to have vehicles with defective Takata airbags repaired as quickly as possible; a move cheered by a pair of Kelley Blue Book analysts. NHTSA first urged owners of more than 4.7 million vehicles to take action and then expanded it to more than 7.8 million units from […] [Read More]

Auto Remarketing is hosting NADA Used Car Guide for a free webinar to help dealerships smooth out what consumers consider one of most dreaded parts of the buying process. During the free session titled, “Close More Deals, Negotiate Less,” a pair of NADA UGC experts will ask dealers how satisfied their customers are with the […] [Read More]

There were two key factors driving down used-car gross margins for Asbury Automotive Group during the third quarter, but the period had some very positive results in both pre-owned and overall results.  Starting with some of the used operational results, Asbury’s Q3 same-store used retail gross profit was up 1 percent at $31.9 million.  Executive vice president […] [Read More]

Sonic Automotive reported its third quarter results today, highlighted by several all-time records. In addition to setting an all-time record for new retail unit sales (36,301 units, up 6.5 percent year-over-year), Sonic also set a new all-time record for pre-owned gross profit, revealing a 5.8-percent increase year-over-year with a pre-owned gross profit of $41.2 million. […] [Read More]

Dealers who participated in KeyBanc Capital Markets’ monthly automotive retail industry update survey gave some candid comments about their used-vehicle prospects, especially in light of 44 percent of respondents saying they expected gross profit per unit to soften by about $50. Despite that gross-profit expectation, the vast majority of dealers surveyed in September (78 percent) […] [Read More]

Auto/Mate Dealership Systems announced this week a product development that company management says will streamline dealership workflow. The company has integrated its dealerships management system with etfile’s electronic document management solution. Now, dealers using the etfile document imagining, filing and retrieval system can now get deals from F&I and repair orders from service, via delivery […] [Read More]

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration urges owners of more than 4.7 million vehicles originally manufactured by Toyota, Honda, Mazda, BMW, Nissan and General Motors to act immediately on recall notices to replace defective Takata airbags. Federal officials stressed that their message comes with added emphasis, especially for owners of vehicles affected by the regional […] [Read More]

Add more than a million vehicles to this year’s record-breaking total of recalls as Chrysler Group and Volkswagen of America rolled out a combined three separate campaigns. With this year’s total now well above 20 million in the U.S. alone, the figure grew because Chrysler’s newest two campaigns stem from an alternator issue and the other […] [Read More]

The folks at Swapalease.com released a blog post on their site this week regarding photo-taking mishaps to avoid when selling a vehicle online. While most of these tips are aimed at private sales, these guidelines are good to keep in mind for dealer sales, as well. The following 11 suggestions from the Cincinnati-based marketplace are situations […] [Read More]