With strategies and tips to give dealers and managers the tools they need to have a successful summer selling season, the next free Auto Remarketing Training Series Webinar is bringing together experts from Kelley Blue Book, Carfax and vAuto. The free session is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday. The expert panel includes:  —Rob […] [Read More]

Three months into the program and Bryan Leaitch — Mazda Canada’s manager of certified pre-owned — has already seen some progress and good signs from dealers. Since debuting Mazda Canada’s CPO offering in March, the automaker has sold 941 CPO units, including 360 certified sales in May alone. As the program continues to grow, Leaitch […] [Read More]

The auto industry has a new group of leaders celebrating their success as the first-ever graduates of a new management training program. Students of NCM Associates’ General Management Executive Program for franchised dealers celebrated their graduation on Wednesday. “I am very proud of each one of today’s graduates; they have worked diligently to balance the […] [Read More]

Jim Mitchell wanted to witness Ohio Gov. John Kasich sign Senate Bill 245 into law earlier this week since the legislation eight years in the making is aimed at assisting independent dealers in becoming successful. The executive director the Ohio Independent Auto Dealers Association cheered the passage of the measure that mandates dealers must go […] [Read More]

According to a new study, used-car deals get better — hundreds of dollars better — as ya shopper heads toward the big city. In all but two states studied in CarGurus’ latest survey, dealers within a 50-mile radius of a major city center offer better deals on their used-car inventory than those located farther outside […] [Read More]

Group 1 Automotive — which made it into Auto Remarketing’s "Top 125 Used-Car Dealer Groups" feature that can be found in the June 15  issue  — said Monday it has made another acquisition in the Sunshine State. Three weeks after revealing the purchase of two stores in the Panama City, Fla., market,  Group 1 announced […] [Read More]

Following the first year-over-year decline in certified pre-owned sales in six months, the market got right back on the upswing in May. CPO sales last month jumped more than 8 percent year-over-year and bested April’s total by 9.7 percent, according to Autodata Corp., which said dealers moved 156,997 certified vehicles in May. [Read More]

Dealers have another resource for marketing their used cars, both locally and across the nation. With a posted online directory claiming more than 99,000 dealers, the newest website from eNetBrands.com is used-car search engine Carzr.com. The search engine brings together used-car listings from top sites around the web, the company reports, including Craigslist, Backpages, Cars.com […] [Read More]

In light of last week’s supercell thunderstorm in northwest Oklahoma that pounded the area with softball size hail, Group 1 Automotive assessed the damage done to its dealerships affected by the storm. The storm launched multiple tornadoes, as well, but its main impact was unusually large hail that produced at least $250,000 in damage and […] [Read More]

Only a month after incentives fell to what was the lowest level in nearly seven years,  Edmunds.com discovered that automakers raised incentives in May, and believes it could be a gradual rise going forward. According to Edmunds.com’s True Cost of Incentives, the industry spent $2,135 per vehicle in May, up 3.9 percent from April, and […] [Read More]