AutoPacific announced Thursday its 17th annual Vehicle Satisfaction Awards, with luxury brands dominating the list. First up, the Top Premium Brand is Cadillac, and Buick notched the title of Top Popular Brand for satisfaction. The vehicle (car or truck) registering the highest satisfaction rate is the Cadillac SRX luxury crossover SUV. Specifically for cars, the […] [Read More]

Chrysler has announced a recall of certain Jeep models – but the group of vehicles involved might not be what first comes to mind, given this week’s earlier news involving the the automaker and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The automaker said Thursday it is recalling around 435,000 later-model units in the U.S. in […] [Read More]

As Experian Automotive noted earlier this week in its State of the Automotive Finance Market, lease penetration levels are at historic highs. Shortly after this report came out, Swapalease.com dove into an analysis detailing what consumers have been paying lately for these cars.  The site released a list of the average monthly payments on the […] [Read More]

Two automakers notched their best certified pre-owned sales month ever in Canada, one managed a year-over-year increase of more than 30 percent, while year-to-date totals soared for many. These are just a few high points of the Canadian CPO sales results rolling in for May. [Read More]

Certified pre-owned sales in May represented the second-strongest month in the history of the CPO market, and beat year-ago figures by more than 19 percent, according to Autodata Corp. The firm released numbers late Wednesday afternoon, indicating there were 187,044 certified sales in May, which marked a 19.2-percent hike from May 2012. Dealers have now […] [Read More]

Toyota Motor Sales USA announced a recall this week of approximately 87,000 cars from the 2010 model year. Toyota said it will conduct a voluntary safety recall involving the 2010 Toyota Prius and Lexus HS 250h vehicles.   (The worldwide recall involves approximately 242,000 vehicles, a Toyota spokesperson indicated.) The recall is based on a […] [Read More]

On Tuesday, Chrysler Group responded to a NHTSA recall letter that involved a total of approximately 2.7 million vehicles. The recall request letter deals with the Jeep Grand Cherokee in model years 1993 to 2004 and the Jeep Liberty in model years 2002 to 2007. The recall request calls into question certain models in regards […] [Read More]

Following the devastating tornado in Oklahoma last month, several areas of the state continued to be pummeled by heavy storms and flash flooding, including another round of twisters on Friday, the second in two weeks. To help dealership employees affected by the deadly storm that struck Moore, Okla., on May 20, the Oklahoma Auto Dealers […] [Read More]

According to information sent to Auto Remarketing on Monday, Ford issued a total of three safety recalls, with the largest being for approximately 465,000 vehicles from the 2013 model year. That particular recall was issued because a fuel delivery module in the fuel tank may leak. The vehicles included in that  campaign are the 2013 […] [Read More]

As May came to close, new- and used-car sales predictions for the month flowed in. Most all of the reports showed positive year-over-year and monthly growth, with automakers expected to see double-digit sales increases right and left. Edmunds.com predicts that an estimated 3.14 million used cars will be sold in May, for a SAAR of […] [Read More]