Noting the decisions help address the health of dealership customer personnel and Rapid Recon employees because of COVID-19 travel concerns, Rapid Recon is temporarily suspending its onsite training and expanding its online training program. Rapid Recon, a vehicle reconditioning technology company, says it has expanded its team of process performance management experts by 50%. The […] [Read More]

Working to help dealerships provide test-drive services to shoppers who are practicing social distancing, DealerSocket’s DealerFire is offering its Delivery Test Drive Integration free of charge for the next 100 days to its dealership customers who use the company’s Engine6 website platform and customer relationship management. That will allow dealers to contact, schedule and deliver vehicles […] [Read More]

Steer, a vehicle-subscription start-up that opened for business in May, has a mission that is “very clear and quite simple,” said its chief executive, Sonya Harbaugh, during a presentation in Detroit. “Our mission is to build cleaner communities by accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles and delivering amazing customer experiences,” she said. Steer’s fleet exclusively […] [Read More]

Now that online marketplace Shift has launched its first Washington-state market in Seattle, customers in that area will be able to sell cars to Shift directly through use of its “brought-to-you” service. For Shift, which is based in California, the service will be available to consumers within the Seattle greater metropolitan area. That includes the […] [Read More]

In her new position as vice president of people operations for enterprise dealer management system provider DealerBuilt, Deb Wiley will oversee the building of the talent architecture that DealerBuilt says enables it “to scale its business to the next level.” DealerBuilt provides a DMS platform that it says helps dealerships customize how they use technology […] [Read More]

Alexi Venneri said Digital Air Strike understands how the coronavirus crisis is changing the way consumers want to engage with businesses. “In response to that, we are helping our dealers and the automotive industry thrive while concurrently assisting to flatten the curve of this outbreak,” said Venneri, who is co-founder and chief executive officer of […] [Read More]

Spiffy, which provides on-demand, mobile car care as well as Fleet Management as a Service (FMaaS), has landed a strategic investment from the venture capital arm of Shell. The investment from Shell Ventures, announced Wednesday, continues a line of growth for Spiffy in 2020 that started with an expansion into the tire care business in […] [Read More]

Jaguar Land Rover dealerships now have another option to cater to their service-drive customers. On Wednesday, Clutch Technologies announced a new integration with data analytics platform provider Synaptiv to help Jaguar Land Rover dealers simplify and more efficiently manage their loaner fleets and fixed operations business. The subscription and mobility services software provider and Cox […] [Read More]

TrueCar has its official president and chief executive officer. Mike Darrow, who has been TrueCar’s interim president and CEO since May 31, was named to the position Tuesday. Darrow, who has been with TrueCar for three years, will join the company’s board of directors, as well. He took on the interim post last spring, replacing […] [Read More]

General Motors has selected MAX Digital, a data-driven software provider for automotive dealers, as a turnkey program provider for its in-Market Retail, or iMR, program. Participating GM dealers can use their iMR funds and receive GM iMR co-op match on their purchase of services from MAX Digital as a turnkey vendor for inventory management with […] [Read More]