After announcing a move into used-vehicle financing during NADA Show 2022 earlier this month, Solera Holdings reinforced its management team on Thursday by appointing top insurance and automotive business executives to key roles. The company said Bill Brower, Mike Roberts, Dan Barrington and Lewis Scott will bolster Solera’s industry position in vehicle lifecycle management. “Solera […] [Read More]

Automotive Ventures founder and chief executive officer Steve Greenfield is back on the show to share more details about the new Automotive Ventures DealerFund the company launched earlier this month. Greenfield explains the "aha moment" that prompted Automotive Ventures to start this fund, how the capital would be used, how dealers are building technologies, the […] [Read More]

We continue our podcast series from NADA Show 2022 in Las Vegas with an interview of Tim Cox, co-founder and chief evangelist at CarNow. Tim talks with senior editor Joe Overby about CarNow's new real-time retail platform launch, the biggest challenges for car dealers right now, accepting cryptocurrency and much more. To listen to this episode, […] [Read More]

This week was another busy one for companies that operate in alternatives to vehicle ownership, as announcements arrived from Autonomy, Kyte and FINN. Beginning first with Autonomy, the electric vehicle subscription company offering consumers what executives believe is the cheapest, fastest and easiest way to get into a Tesla Model 3 is now expanding its […] [Read More]

Here’s how a bank and a dealer group are working together to solve concerns for both consumers and dealerships. U.S. Bank and Driveway are collaborating to pay vehicle sellers immediately with real-time payments, making Driveway the first online dealership to pay customers over the RTP network, according to a news release distributed on Wednesday. U.S. […] [Read More]

Next up on our Auto Remarketing Podcast series from NADA Show 2022, senior editor Joe Overby reconnects with TrueCar chief executive officer Mike Darrow to talk about TrueCar+, which enables the company to become a "modern-day marketplace" to connect dealers and consumers online. Darrow talks about the TrueCar+ pilot in Tampa, continued rollout, marketing plans and […] [Read More]

In addition to some more automotive-specific news earlier this month, DrivenIQ, which specializes in data and data technologies that help businesses target their advertising to the most ideal audience, said Friday it has acquired Visitor Data Inc. In a news release, the company said the main reason it bought Visitor Data was, “for its double […] [Read More]

On Thursday, TrueCar announced the launch of its Sell Your Car offering and introduced its home delivery program in Texas. The company highlighted Sell Your Car provides consumers with visibility into their vehicle’s value as well as an instant, online True Cash Offer, while providing dealers a channel through which they can easily acquire additional […] [Read More]

For this installment of our podcasts from NADA Show 2022, we turn to the FUEL side of the CARS group. Dean Evans and Terry Laughridge join the show and talk with senior editor Joe Overby about where FUEL fits into the company's end-to-end offering, how cord-cutting and streaming impacts automotive advertising, the move toward brand image and branding […] [Read More]

As an entrepreneur, Shift chief executive officer George Arison has often been a “builder” when it comes to tech-enabled platforms. In addition to co-founding Shift, Arison was co-founder of Taxi Magic, which is now Curb In his leadership of Shift, he has long envisioned a dealer listings marketplace at the company, but realized that it […] [Read More]