Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping dealership operations by automating communication, improving workflows, and supporting staff with tools like copilots and...
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Dealer news: Asbury leadership transition complete; Zinn honored by Northwood; Carlock heads north
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Part I: How used-car operations at public retailers fared in Q1
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This Month's Focus
Artificial Intelligence
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CARS Protection Plus taps Circuitry.ai Warranty Decision Intelligence to help adjusters resolve claims faster
Here’s an example from the car-warranty industry where companies are leveraging artificial intelligence to help people, not replace them. On Tuesday, CARS Protection Plus, a provider of vehicle service contracts, announced it has gone live with Circuitry.ai’s Warranty Decision Intelligence ... Read More
DealerOn’s dual launch includes AI search visibility platform, ‘intelligent layer’ touching full dealership
DealerOn has done NASA one better. While the space agency recently launched the first astronauts to visit the moon in more than 50 years, the provider of auto dealership websites and digital sales and marketing technology boasted two launches on ... Read More
Newest Experian tool designed to reduce risk within AI-driven commerce
Experian found another way to connect people and technology. And the newest tool emphasizes the component of a transaction including a real person. Last week, the company launched Experian Agent Trust, a framework that designed to establish a secure, verifiable ... Read More
FICO’s Shams Blanc on lenders sharpening underwriting & more
Fresh off being in Miami as part of the Used Car Industry Summit that Cherokee Media Group hosted this spring, Shams Blanc, who is vice president of auto scores at FICO, appeared again on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. Blanc discussed ... Listen Here
Byron Oldham of Honest Autos & FIADA
Byron Oldham is president of the family-owned Honest Autos dealership and is president of the board at the Florida Independent Automobile Dealers Association. In this episode, Oldham talks with Cherokee Media Group senior editor Joe Overby about the upcoming Southeast ... Listen Here
Automotive CFO-To-Go Kathi Kruse talks dealership finance, accounting in ‘lightning round’
Kathi Kruse, the Automotive CFO-To-Go who brings her financial expertise — born through years of experience as a dealership chief financial officer — to dealers needing help in that area, is back on the Auto Remarketing Podcast. In this episode, ... Listen Here
Retail
Carfax launches Homegrown badge to show customers the vehicles they’re looking for
These are the cars your dealership has known since Day 1. They’re the cars your customers are looking for. And now Carfax is letting your customers which ones they are. The provider of vehicle history reports has introduced the Carfax ... [Read More]
Part III: How used-car operations at public retailers fared in Q1
About a year ago, Sonic Automotive announced that its EchoPark Automotive used-car program had secured naming rights to what was then Atlanta Motor Speedway. The move was seen as a natural fit, given the family lineage of and ties between ... [Read More]
Wholesale
Go West launches online auction aimed at dealers from the Pacific to the Mississippi
A new auction is riding in from the West. Go West Auto Auctions announced it is launching an online wholesale auction for licensed retail/wholesale dealers in the Western U.S. In a news release, the company, based in Bend, Ore., said ... [Read More]
ACV unifies inventory intelligence tools into one product suite
ACV started as a digital auto auction marketplace in 2014, but in the dozen years since, it has expanded by acquisition and development to include a bevy of additional services for dealers. Including inventory management. ACV bought MAX Digital in ... [Read More]
Technology
DealerOn’s dual launch includes AI search visibility platform, ‘intelligent layer’ touching full dealership
DealerOn has done NASA one better. While the space agency recently launched the first astronauts to visit the moon in more than 50 years, the provider of auto dealership websites and digital sales and marketing technology boasted two launches on ... [Read More]
TrueCar adds two new leaders to help shape its continuing ‘transformation’
Scott Painter’s makeover of TrueCar now includes two new additions in leadership roles. The digital auto retail platform announced it has hired former INFINITI executive Nikole Wells as senior vice president of dealer sales and Steve Moretti, who worked with ... [Read More]
Analysis
Even with supply up 14%, used EVs sell 27% faster in Q1
Something seemingly odd happened in the used electric vehicle market during the first quarter. Used EV supply was up more than 14% year-over-year, but the turn time on these cars was 18 days faster than it was in Q1 2025, ... [Read More]
Amid unusual monthly rise in used-car retail prices, ‘silver lining’ remains for consumers & dealers
Customers are likely to bristle at the money they shell out to buy a used car these days. Percentagewise, the jump in price from March to April was about three times the typical sequential change for a given month, says ... [Read More]
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