In describing his company’s strategic alliance with Ally Financial, Fair chief executive Scott Painter used a locomotive analogy. “In a lot of ways, Fair is the train. And Ally is the railroad,” Painter said in a phone interview on Tuesday. “We get just a tremendous amount of liquidity and distribution through Ally, and I think […] [Read More]

AutoGravity is looking to bring auto finance customers to captives and commercial banks where it might be appropriate for the providers to learn greetings such as bon jour, guten tag or kon'nichiwa. On Tuesday, AutoGravity announced a partnership with Westbon, one of the first lending platform for international students in the U.S. Through this unique […] [Read More]

Car and Driver, as it turns out, isn’t just for reading anymore. The Hearst Autos media property already had recently expanded editorial reviews, car listings and pricing information. Now, it has added a Trade-In Value tool and a Credit Score tool to make the buying process easier for both dealers and consumers. “Dealers and consumers […] [Read More]

PureCars announced Monday that it has joined the growing Volkswagen Dealer Digital Program to provide dealers with its multi-channel digital advertising platform — SmartAdvertising. Volkswagen’s dealer network can now access the PureCars SmartAdvertising platform for advertising solutions including paid search, dynamic retargeting and programmatic display campaigns. “We are honored to be recognized as a valued digital […] [Read More]

Netsertive announced Monday that the company is the latest to be named an approved partner of the Volkswagen Dealer Digital Program. With Netsertive’s digital marketing intelligence technology, Volkswagen can now equip its dealer network with performance-based digital marketing campaigns made to deliver local market sales. “Volkswagen understands that today’s customers are starting their research online […] [Read More]

The growing market of vehicle subscription services has a new entrant, and it’s one that has already lined up a key partner in the auto finance and wholesale space in Ally Financial. Mobiliti, a new subscription service based in Detroit, said it will work with dealers to provide a vehicle subscription option to consumers, and […] [Read More]

fusionZONE Automotive has made a purchase that it says will help broaden its presence in the single-point dealer and dealer group spaces and make the company one of the Toyota Digital Dealer Solution program’s largest providers. On Wednesday, the website solution provider announced plans to buy web design company MotorWebs. Terms of the deal to […] [Read More]

Over the course of a week at AFSA's Vehicle Finance Conference, the J.D. Power Automotive Automotive Summit and NADA Show 2018 in Las Vegas last month, Auto Remarketing recorded more than a dozen podcasts with auto industry leaders.  To kick off our podcast series from these events, we bring you a sit-down discussion with Sandy Schwartz, […] [Read More]

Credit union members now can use the help of another familiar industry name when they're shopping for the next vehicle. GrooveCar announced a new partnership with Kelley Blue Book on Thursday that will provide credit union members access to the KBB Price Advisor tool via the GrooveCar platform. The platform for credit union members can […] [Read More]

Dent Wizard International announced Thursday that it has promoted company chief operating officer Mike Black to chief executive officer.  Black succeeds former Dent Wizard CEO, Terry Koebbe, who will advise the senior management team and help with merger and acquisition efforts as company chairman. “Mike has done an incredible job in his seven-plus years as […] [Read More]