Copart recently announced the top three winners of its first-ever Copart Rebuild Challenge, a contest designed for enthusiasts and auto rebuilders to show how they restored, customized or rebuilt a vehicle. Copart members from across the country submitted their rebuild projects for a chance to win the $10,000 grand prize. A panel of Copart judges […] [Read More]

Several of Manheim’s Northeastern locations from Philadelphia to Albany, N.Y., provided their time and support to various Ronald McDonald Houses in their areas over the summer. More than 20 of the company’s members participated in the over-40-year heritage of the Ronald McDonald Houses, giving support to families of injured and ill children. The teams gathered […] [Read More]

There was a small concentration of vehicles that GE Capital Fleet Services found challenging to sell earlier this year.  So, in response, the company launched an incentive package for its online wholesale buyers, through which if a buyer purchased three of those vehicles, he or she would receive a buyer’s fee discount that GE Capital […] [Read More]

Gary Mott likens the vendor management capabilities of his company’s Fleet Guru product partially to the concept behind the cross-platform car buying and selling in the remarketing industry. Mott, who is vice president at FLD Inc., talked with Auto Remarketing earlier this summer about the Fleet Guru vendor management system as well as the company’s […] [Read More]

As we wrapped up August in the lanes last week, prices continued to trend downward — creating an optimum buying environment at auction, said Black Book’s Ricky Beggs. And it was a busy week at the auction, too, the Black Book editorial director said in his latest “Beggs on the Used Car Market” video report. […] [Read More]

The Dealer’s Auto Auction of Mobile decided to employ alternative methods to stir up local interest in its public sale on Thursday. The auction’s general manager, Al Praitano, previewed the day’s spoils via the airwaves on Mobile’s local station 95 KSJ. “We were looking for something fun and different to engage the community for our […] [Read More]

September is kicking off with lower used-car prices than expected, perhaps, as August’s auction price declines far exceeded initial predictions — at least through half the month. In a post on NADA’s Used Car & Truck Blog on Wednesday, NADA automotive analyst David Paris pointed out that used-vehicle depreciation for units up to 8 years in age had dropped […] [Read More]

ServNet Auctions  have been making moves in the remarketing industry during the summer months. DAA Northwest presented its Rock & Roll Sale in the middle of July, bringing dealers from the U.S. and Western Canada to Spokane, Wash. for the event. The sale featured consignments from Ford, Harley-Davidson, Avis and Toyota, among others, and brought 1,000 dealers […] [Read More]

Cox Automotive named a senior vice president and chief people officer today, appointing Rock Anderson to the role, effective immediately.   Anderson had been Manheim’s regional vice president – West Regional Operations. Filling that position now is Barry Roop, Manheim’s market vice president for the Texas market. Roop, as some may know, was president of the […] [Read More]

For any NAAA-member auctions interested in participating in Auto Remarketing’s “Auction Life” feature — which is part of our annual National Auto Auction Association Convention Issue — the deadline to submit photos is this week.  This special section of our NAAA Issue will include photos from auctions across the country, sharing bits of the day-to-day life from […] [Read More]