Industry consolidation continues as dealers descend on Las Vegas this week for annual meetings and conferences. A little more than a month after first revealing the planned purchase, late on Tuesday afternoon DealerSocket announced the completion of its acquisition of Auto/Mate, emphasizing the move brings together two customer-service focused companies and offers dealers a comprehensive choice […] [Read More]

On Tuesday, Cox Automotive shared details about an integration involving Clutch Technologies and Xtime that further supports its vision for fixed ops and dealer mobility services. The integration involves Xtime’s fully integrated, end-to-end service experience platform and Clutch’s fleet sync and service pickup and delivery software serve that are combing to be the engine for […] [Read More]

Car search engine MotorCloud has added a new feature called Cloud Cash, which allows shoppers to upload their vehicles to the cloud and receive bids from car dealers across the country. The company said consumers, through their public MotorCloud account, can now post vehicles for sale on private dealer trading platform, DealersLink.  With MotorCloud, once consumers post […] [Read More]

AuctionACCESS and Manheim say that dealers can now scan their AuctionACCESS Mobile Card at all check-in kiosks at Manheim U.S. auction locations, and that means those dealers can securely validate their identity and receive a bidder badge to enter the auction lanes. AuctionACCESS is a credentialing system for the wholesale automotive industry, and AuctionACCESS senior […] [Read More]

Clutch Technologies finalized a pair of relationships on Monday to expand its presence in the vehicle-subscription space. First, AmeriDrive, operator of one of the largest subscription fleets in North America, chose Clutch Technologies to power the all-new AmeriDrive portfolio of subscription services. Then, HyreCar announced a partnership with Clutch Technologies, a Cox Automotive brand. In […] [Read More]

At Used Car Week 2018 as well as last summer’s gathering of the International Automotive Remarketers Alliance (IARA), Andrea Amico described risk many automotive-industry segments face in connection with Personally Identifiable Information (PII) stored in a vehicle’s technology system. On Friday, Amico — founder of Privacy4Cars.com — described the headway his firm made in reducing […] [Read More]

Potential buyers sometimes can quickly sour on a vehicle in your inventory if it has an unresolved recall. To help used-car managers track recalls, AutoMap has integrated AutoAp’s comprehensive safety recall management technology into its solution, helping dealers reduce safety recall liability and increase warranty reimbursement revenue in addition to their automated vehicle electronic-tagging, location […] [Read More]

SureSale, which offers a standardized certification-as-a-service platform designed to broaden dealers’ certified pre-owned inventory beyond OEM programs, has closed a $7 million Series A round of funding led by Upfront Ventures. Upfront Ventures, which has previously provided funding for the likes of TrueCar and Dealertrack, was joined by seed-round leader Coffin Capital and Ventures and […] [Read More]

Sam Zales says CarGurus’ employees “are at the center of CarGurus’ success and future growth.” Last year, Fortune named CarGurus to its “Great Places to Work” list, and the company made Computerworld’s “Best Place to Work in IT” list. “And we are hyper-focused on supporting and developing our teams while continuing to attract world-class talent,” […] [Read More]

Absolute Sourcing is a new feature to DealerSocket’s Inventory+ that the company says “takes a dealer’s buy/sell list to the next level.” It does that by showing dealers where to acquire vehicles that fit in their inventory. Absolute Sourcing and New Car Pricing are two enhancements that DealerSocket will unveil at NADA this year, and […] [Read More]