Sutherlin Automotive Group is out of the Florida market. The Alabama-based dealership group, owned by Brett Sutherlin, sold its last store in the Sunshine State, Sutherlin Nissan of Vero Beach, to Andy Unanue, according to Pinnacle Mergers & Acquisitions, which represented the seller in the transaction. The dealership has been renamed Nissan of Vero Beach. […] [Read More]

Drive Pink has shifted into high gear. AutoNation has launched its eighth annual DRV PNK Across America campaign, a nationwide series of events that serves as the highlight of the company’s year-round commitment to supporting cancer-fighting organizations and cancer-related causes. The DRV PNK initiative has donated and raised more than $40 million to advance cancer […] [Read More]

Another Megasite, another new market for Carvana’s same-day vehicle delivery. The online used-car retailer announced Las Vegas has become the latest market to offer select customers the opportunity to take delivery of their vehicle as soon as the same day they place an order on Carvana.com. Las Vegas is also home to the company’s third […] [Read More]

Thomas and Ashley Peden are building a dealership group. The brother-sister partnership have acquired three stores on the Ohio-West Virginia state line from Richard Nourse of the Nourse Family of Dealerships, according to the Tim Lamb Group, which worked with the seller in the transaction. The dealerships — Pioneer Chevrolet and Family Ford Lincoln in […] [Read More]

There’s a unique auction happening now in Texas generating thousands of dollars in bids. And it’s not for classic muscle cars or a trio of cherries that you know you can retail quickly and for hefty gross profits. Rather, My Plates — the official vendor for specialty license plates in Texas — is auctioning a […] [Read More]

Clay Cooley Auto Group is now a big name in Arlington, Texas. The North Texas dealership group announced it has acquired Don Davis Ford and Don Davis Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram in Arlington. Along with its previous addition of Don Davis Nissan, Clay Cooley now operates four dealerships in the city of about 400,000 between […] [Read More]

For an ad emphasizing speed, Carvana found a pretty good spokesman. Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson is featured in a new commercial touting Carvana’s same-day vehicle delivery service, which allows select customers to receive their car in less than 24 hours after placing an order on carvana.com. The service, which was introduced in […] [Read More]

Carfluent, an artificial intelligence-driven website technology designed to connect car dealers with Spanish-speaking customers, has named former DealerFire and DealerSocket executive Aaron Schinke as its chief growth officer. The company said Schinke, who most recently served as CEO of software development firm Lincoln Labs, has a track record of leading teams and driving growth, and […] [Read More]

Ed Morse, founder of the Ed Morse Automotive Group, was posthumously inducted into the Florida Automobile Dealers Association Dealer Hall of Fame in a ceremony Thursday night at the at the Waldorf Astoria in Orlando. Morse, who died in 2012, was among 10 members of the Hall’s second class of inductees. The Hall was inaugurated […] [Read More]

Qvale Auto Group is down to its last two dealerships with the sale of two stores in the Tampa, Fla., area. According to The Presidio Group, which advised the seller in the transaction, Atlantic Coast Automotive, a large dealership group that operates some 90 dealership locations in Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and New York, has […] [Read More]