LotLinx has expanded its VIN-specific shopper targeting technology platform, LotLinx TURN with the addition of LotLinx VS – VINdrop, the company’s latest new product that is designed to boost dealers’ end-of-month performance and revenue goals. The new product can generate up to ten additional sales in ten days through a blast of 15 low-funnel shopper […] [Read More]

Former Kelley Blue Book president and chief executive officer Paul Johnson has joined the board of directors at Vast, the parent company behind the CarStory Platform.   Johnson was at the helm of KBB for 13 years and also led software/hardware services startup CDMdata.   Vast said in a news release that Johnson’s “deep understanding […] [Read More]

Carvana added its 36th market on Wednesday, filling another key spot along the East Coast: Baltimore. Customers within 50 miles of the city who purchase vehicles on the Carvana.com can now have that car delivered as soon as the next day for free. This is the third city Carvana has added in the past eight days, […] [Read More]

While he invests in the talents of LeBron James on the basketball court, Dan Gilbert has been investing off the court in Vroom. And on Tuesday, the online auto retailer got another assist from the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Vroom has teamed up with Rock Connections, a sales and marketing agency owned by Gilbert, […] [Read More]

Car Keys Express has entered the retail market with the introduction of Car Keys Express NOW!, an in-store version of their mobile key replacement system. The new automotive key replacement solution is compact and packaged into a customer-facing, retail-friendly cabinet that minimizes retailers’ investment in tools, training and inventory, according to the company. “Car Keys Express NOW! […] [Read More]

Dallas-based startup Fastlane has launched a new e-commerce platform that gives automotive dealerships the ability to customize their online check-out processes. The new platform is designed to facilitate an easy and efficient online car buying process that both showcases dealers’ available inventory and allows customers to acquire financing, service contracts and insurance following a purchase […] [Read More]

Paragon Honda and Paragon Acura announced last week they have expanded the group’s e-commerce sales and service platform to another borough of New York.   After a three-month beta test in Manhattan, Paragon Direct is now available in Queens. The platform allows consumers to schedule service, buy cars and set up test-drives online.   Brian […] [Read More]

Roadster said Monday it is now providing its white-label vehicle ecommerce solution to Longo Toyota, which is said to be the largest Toyota store in the world.  Longo, which is a part of the Penske Motor Group and Auto Remarketing's CPO Dealer of the Year in 2012,  joins a list of other well-known dealers and dealer […] [Read More]

Classic vehicle insurance provider Hagerty announced Monday it is stepping into the car-rental space with the company's latest acquisition of the peer-to-peer online marketplace for classic cars: Classics&Exotics. Hagerty has relaunched this marketplace, which is boasted as the Airbnb of vintage and exotic cars, as DriveShare by Hagerty. The peer-to-peer marketplace has connected American drivers with classic cars […] [Read More]

Scalability can be a challenge for any startup, and that certainly is evident in automotive, where the business of selling cars has a lot of moving parts — both metaphorically and within the vehicle itself. With $295 million in equity funding (as of mid-July), national vehicle delivery capabilities and a 2015 purchase that drove vehicle […] [Read More]